New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 3:14
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 were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse? 13For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest, With kings and counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves; 15Or with rulers who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver. 16Or like a miscarriage which is hidden, I would not exist, As infants that never saw light.
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עִם־מְ֭לָכִים וְיֹ֣עֲצֵי אָ֑רֶץ הַבֹּנִ֖ים חֳרָב֣וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 3:14
- Job 30:23For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house of meeting for all living.
- 1 Kings 2:10Then David lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43Then Solomon lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
- Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the abundance of their riches?
- Psalms 89:48What man can live and not see death? Can he save his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has authority over the wind to restrain the wind, nor authority over the day of death; and there is no military discharge in the time of war, and evil will not save those who practice it.
- Isaiah 14:10They will all respond and say to you, ‘Even you have become weak as we, You have become like us.
- Ezekiel 27:18Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.
- Job 15:28He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who attach house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you remain in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will put glory 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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