Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,
New American Standard Bible
Who rebuilt
King James Version
With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Holman Bible
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,
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves, 15 or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:28
And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
1 Kings 2:10
And 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 David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Job 12:17
He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 49:6-10
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,
Psalm 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.
Psalm 89:48
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:10-16
They shall all answer and say to thee, Have thou also become weak as we? Have thou become like us?
Isaiah 58:12
And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Ezekiel 26:20
then I will bring thee down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, th
Ezekiel 27:18-32
Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, because of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.