God’s Word Translation
Job 3:14
14I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves ⌞what are now⌟ ruins.
Job 3:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- New International Version (NIV)with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
- English Standard Version (ESV)with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
- New King James Version (NKJV)With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,
Context of Job 3:14
12Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse? 13Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully. I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves ⌞what are now⌟ ruins. 15I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver. 16I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.
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עִם־מְ֭לָכִים וְיֹ֣עֲצֵי אָ֑רֶץ הַבֹּנִ֖ים חֳרָב֣וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 3:14
- Job 30:23I know you will lead me to death, to the dwelling place appointed for all living beings.
- 1 Kings 2:10David lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43Solomon lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.
- Psalms 49:6They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.
- Psalms 89:48Can a mortal go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave? Selah
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has the power to prevent the spirit of life from leaving. No one has control over the day of his own death. There is no way to avoid the war ⌞against death⌟. Wickedness will not save wicked people ⌞from dying⌟.
- Isaiah 14:10All of them will greet you, “You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us!”
- Ezekiel 27:18People from Damascus traded with you because you had so many products. They exchanged wine from Helbon and wool from Sahar.
- Job 15:28He lives in ruined cities where no one dwells, in houses that are doomed to be piles of rubble.
- Isaiah 5:8How horrible it will be for you who acquire house after house and buy field after field until there’s nothing left and you have to live by yourself in the land.
- Ezekiel 26:20I will bring you down with those who descend to the grave to join the people of long ago. I will make you live below the earth among the ancient ruins with those who go down to the grave. You will never return or take your place in the land of the living.
Commentaries on Job 3:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14With kings and counsellors of the earth - I believe this translation to be perfectly correct. The counsellors, יעצי yoatsey, I suppose to mean the privy council, or advisers of kings; those without whose advice kings seldom undertake wars, expeditions, etc. These mighty agitators of the world are at rest in their graves, after the lives of commotion which they have led among men: most of whom indeed have been the troublers of the peace of the globe. Which…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14With kings - Reposing as they do. This is the language of calm meditation on what would have been the consequence if he had died when he was an infant. He seems to delight to dwell on it. He contrasts it with his present situation. He pauses on the thought that that would have been an honorable repose. He would have been numbered with kings and princes. Is there not here a little spice of ambition even in his sorrows and humilation? Job had been an…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-19Verses 11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire to die, only that we may be…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14People believed the dead kept their identities and social status. Job might have wanted kings and prime ministers to recognize his status as a prince (1:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. With kings ... which built desolate places for themselves--who built up for themselves what proved to be (not palaces, but) ruins! The wounded spirit of Job, once a great emir himself, sick of the vain struggles of mortal great men, after grandeur, contemplates the palaces of kings, now desolate heaps of ruins. His regarding the repose of death the most desirable end of the great ones of earth, wearied with heaping up perishable treasures, marks the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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