Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
King James Version
In Context
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Job 15:28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalms 89:48What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one 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 →