Job 3:14
With kings and counselors of the earth, 1 Who gloried in their swords; 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, 1 I should have slept and been at rest, 1
15Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, 1 Who filled their houses with silver: 1
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightaway comes into his own city, into the land of Zeredah in the mount of Ephraim. And King Solomon slept with his fathers, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Job 15:28And let him lodge in desolate cities, 1 And enter into houses without inhabitant: 1 And what they have prepared, others shall carry away. 1
Psalms 49:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: 1 For God is judge. Pause. 1
Isaiah 5:8Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor’s: will ye dwell alone upon the land?
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations lie in honor, every man 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 →