Job 3:14
with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
Job 15:28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own 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 →