Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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,

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 Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest, 14 like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places: 15 As the princes that have great substance of gold, and their houses full of silver.


Cross References

Job 15:28

Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.

1 Kings 2:10

And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 11:43

And then he laid him to rest 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 carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

Job 30:23

Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

Psalm 49:6-10

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

Psalm 49:14

They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

Psalm 89:48

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone?

Isaiah 14:10-16

that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us?

Isaiah 58:12

Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

Ezekiel 26:20

Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 27:18-32

Damascus also used merchandises with thee, in the best wine and white wool: because thy occupying was so great, and thy wares so many.

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