New King James Version
Job 3:14
14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,
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 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 did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 13For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves, 15Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver; 16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw 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 30:23For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
- 1 Kings 2:10So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43Then Solomon rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
- Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches,
- Psalms 89:48What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Selah
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
- Isaiah 14:10They all shall speak and say to you: ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?
- Ezekiel 27:18Damascus was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with white wool.
- Job 15:28He dwells in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabits, Which are destined to become ruins.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish 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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