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Job 3:14
14with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
Job 3:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- 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,
- New Living Translation (NLT)I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers, whose great buildings now lie in ruins.
Context of Job 3:14
12Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed? 13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins, 15with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
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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 bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- 1 Kings 2:10Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.
- Psalms 49:6those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?
- Psalms 89:48Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Isaiah 14:10They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”
- Ezekiel 27:18“ ‘Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar
- Job 15:28he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not 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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