Job 3:14
With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Salomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his steade.
Job 15:28Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
Psalms 49:6They trust in their goods, and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.
Psalms 89:48What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, and laye fielde to fielde, till there bee no place, that ye may be placed by your selues in the mids of the earth.
Isaiah 14:18All the Kings of the nations, euen they all sleepe in glorie, euery one in his owne 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 →