Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up for themselves—ruins!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now should I lie down and be quiet; I should sleep; then should I be at rest,
15Or with princes that had gold, And filled their houses with silver;
Cross References
Job 15:28And dwelt in desolated cities, In houses which no man inhabiteth, That are ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6They who trust in their riches, And glory in the greatness of their wealth?
Psalms 89:48What man liveth, and seeth not death? Who can deliver himself from the underworld?
Isaiah 5:8Woe to them that join house to house, That add field to field, Till there is no place left, And they dwell alone in the land.
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, yea, all of them, Lie down in glory, each in his own sepulchre;
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 →