Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept — then there is rest to me,
15Or with princes — they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43and Solomon lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David his father, and reign doth Rehoboam his son in his stead.
Job 15:28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.
Psalms 89:48Who [is] the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe [to] those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All kings of nations — all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his 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 →