Tree of Life Version
Job 3:14
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now desolate,
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 the knees welcome me, and breasts that I might nurse? 13For now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep and at rest with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now desolate, 15with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, 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, to the house appointed for all the living.
- 1 Kings 2:10Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43Then Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam was king in his place.
- Psalms 49:6Why should I fear in evil days? when the iniquity of my deceivers surrounds me?
- Psalms 89:48Remember how short my life span is! For what futility have You created all the children of men?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
- Isaiah 14:10They all answer and say to you: “Even you have become as weak as us? Have you become like us?
- Ezekiel 27:18Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods and all your great wealth, with the wine of Helbon and wool of white.
- Job 15:28he lived in ruined cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to crumble into heaps.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house and merge field to field, until there is no room, and you will live alone in the midst of the land!
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with them who descend into the Pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the lowest parts of the earth, like the waste places of old, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or radiate splendor 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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