Job 3:14
With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
15Or with rulers possessing, gold,—Who had filled their houses with silver:
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43So then 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 had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6As for them who are trusting in their wealth,—And, in the abundance of their riches, do boast themselves,
Psalms 89:48Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. [Selah.]
Isaiah 5:8Alas for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near,—Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations—they all, are lying in state Each one in his crypt;
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 →