Job 3:14

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

With kings {H4428} and counsellors {H3289} of the earth {H776}, which built {H1129} desolate places {H2723} for themselves;

along with kings and their earthly advisers, who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Job 15:28 (4 votes)

    And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Isaiah 14:10 (3 votes)

    All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

  • Isaiah 14:16 (3 votes)

    They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

  • Psalms 49:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

  • Psalms 49:10 (2 votes)

    For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • Isaiah 58:12 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:8 (2 votes)

    [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.