Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,
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,
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
13 "If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest, 14 along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins, 15 or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:28
He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.
1 Kings 2:10
After this, David died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the City of David.
1 Kings 11:43
Then Solomon died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
Job 12:17
He leads counselors away naked; he turns judges into fools.
Job 30:23
I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
Psalm 49:6-10
those who put confidence in their wealth and boast about their great riches?
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.
Psalm 89:48
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Isaiah 5:8
"How terrible it will be for you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you have settled yourselves alone in the middle of the land!"
Isaiah 14:10-16
In answer, all of them will tell you, "You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'
Isaiah 58:12
And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You'll raise up the age-old foundations, and people will call you "Repairer of Broken Walls,' "Restorer of Streets to Live In.'
Ezekiel 26:20
I'll make sure that you go straight to the Pit, into the lowest part of the earth, where you'll be with people who lived in ancient times. You'll keep company there with the dead, who have gone into the Pit. As a result, your city won't be inhabited. Meanwhile, I will display my glory in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 27:18-32
"Because you have so much to sell and are so rich, Damascus has been your trading partner, exchanging wine from Helbon, unbleached wool,