Job 3:14
With kings and counselors of earth, || These building ruins for themselves.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
15Or with princes—they have gold, || They are filling their houses [with] silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43and Solomon lies with his fathers, and is buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigns in his stead.
Job 15:28And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, || That have been ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6Those trusting on their wealth, || And in the multitude of their riches, || Show themselves foolish.
Psalms 89:48Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe [to] those joining house to house, || They bring field near to field, || Until there is no place, || And you have been settled by yourselves || In the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All kings of nations—all of them, || Have lain down in glory, each in his 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 →