Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,
15Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver;
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehobo'am his son became king in his stead.
Job 15:28And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.
Psalms 49:6(49:7) Of those that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves of the multitude of their riches?
Psalms 89:48(89:49) What man is there that can live, and shall not see death? that can deliver his soul from the power of the nether word? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe unto those that cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till there is no more room, so that ye may be left alone as the inhabitants in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own [eternal] house.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →