Parallel Verses
NET Bible
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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,
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:
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 would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, 15 or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:28
he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
1 Kings 2:10
Then David passed away and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings 11:43
Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.
Job 12:17
He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.
Job 30:23
I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
Psalm 49:6-10
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Psalm 49:14
They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.
Psalm 89:48
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
Isaiah 5:8
Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, those who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.
Isaiah 14:10-16
All of them respond to you, saying: 'You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!
Isaiah 58:12
Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called, 'The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.'
Ezekiel 26:20
then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 27:18-32
Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,