Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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
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 should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest 14 with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves, 15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Cross References

Job 15:28

And he lives in cut off cities, in houses where none are living, which are 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 reigned in his place.

Job 12:17

He leads wise men away stripped, and makes the judges fools.

Job 30:23

For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 49:6-10

Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home.

Psalm 89:48

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Isaiah 14:10-16

All of them shall speak and say to you, Are you also as weak as we? Are you like us?

Isaiah 58:12

And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Ezekiel 26:20

when I shall bring you down with those who go down into the Pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places ruined in days of old, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you have no inhabitants (but I gave glory in the land of the living)

Ezekiel 27:18-32

Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

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