Job 3:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves what are now ruins.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

DBY:

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

WEB:

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

YLT:

With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

Job 3:14 Cross References

XREF:

Job 12:17 "He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

Job 12:18 "He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.

Job 15:28 "He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins.

Isaiah 58:12 "Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built {k} desolate places for themselves;
(k) He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would by this make their names immortal.

WES:

3:14 Kings - I had then been as happy as the proudest monarchs, who after all their great achievements and enjoyments, go down into their graves. Built - Who to shew their wealth and power, or to leave behind them a glorious name, rebuilt ruined cities, or built new cities and palaces, in places where before there was mere solitude and wasteness.

MHC:

3:11-19 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 delivered from the troubles of this life, savours of corruption. It is our wisdom and duty to make the best of that which is, be it living or dying; and so to live to the Lord, and die to the Lord, as in both to be his, Ro 14:8. Observe how Job describes the repose of the grave; There the wicked cease from troubling. When persecutors die, they can no longer persecute. There the weary are at rest: in the grave they rest from all their labours. And a rest from sin, temptation, conflict, sorrows, and labours, remains in the presence and enjoyment of God. There believers rest in Jesus, nay, as far as we trust in the Lord Jesus and obey him, we here find rest to our souls, though in the world we have tribulation.

CONC:

Build Building Built Counsellors Counselors Desolate Houses Kings Lying Ones Places Rebuilt Ruins Themselves Waste Wastes Wise

Build Building Built Counsellors Counselors Desolate Earth Great Houses Kings Lying Ones Places Rebuilt Ruins Themselves Waste Wastes Wise

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