Job 3:14
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- KJV
- With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- WEB
- with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
- ASV
- With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
- DARBY
- With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
- BLB
- with the kings and counselors of the earth, who built [up] ruins for themselves;
- ÅB
- sammen med konger og jordens styrere, som bygget seg ruiner,
- OTB
- med jordens konger og rådgivere,
som bygde ruiner for seg selv, - B1930
- sammen med konger og jordens styrere, som bygget sig ruiner,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Read in contextPsalms 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:10–16
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Read in contextPsalms 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Read in contextPsalms 49:6–10
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Read in contextIsaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Read in contextJob 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Read in contextJob 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
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