Parallel Verses
Webster
With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate 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,
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:
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 should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Names
Cross References
Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
1 Kings 2:10
So 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 leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 49:6-10
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalm 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Isaiah 14:10-16
All they shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like us?
Isaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Ezekiel 26:20
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Ezekiel 27:18-32
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.