Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

with the kings and counselors of the earth,
who rebuilt ruined cities for themselves,

International Standard Version

along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves;

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

With kings and counselors of the earth building the wastes for themselves;

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

with kings and counselors of [the] earth, who {rebuild} ruins for themselves,

Modern King James verseion

with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:

NET Bible

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
With kings
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Had Died

13 “For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14 With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
15 Or with princes who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.


Cross References

Job 15:28

“He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 11:43

And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Job 12:17

“He makes counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.

Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

Psalm 49:6-10

Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 14:10-16

They will all respond and say to you,
‘Even you have been made weak as we,
You have become like us.

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.

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 27:18-32

Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.

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