Parallel Verses
Amplified
With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built up [now desolate] ruins 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;
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
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],
With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves;
Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:28
And he has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities,
In houses which no one should inhabit,
Which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];
1 Kings 2:10
So David lay down with his fathers [in death] and was buried in the
1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon slept [in death] with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
Job 12:17
“He makes [great and scheming] counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.
Job 30:23
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.
Psalm 49:6-10
Even those who trust in and rely on their wealth
And boast of the abundance of their riches?
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
Death will be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form and beauty shall
So that they have no dwelling [on earth].
Psalm 89:48
What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,
Nor does he have authority over the day of death;
There is no discharge [from service] during time of war,
And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who join house to house and join field to field [to increase their holdings by depriving others],
Until there is no more room [for others],
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:10-16
“All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you,
‘You have become as weak as we are.
You have become like us.
Isaiah 58:12
“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations [of buildings that have been laid waste];
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Streets
Ezekiel 26:20
then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit (the place of the dead), to the people of old, and I will make you [Tyre] live in the depths of the earth, like the ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory and splendor in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 27:18-32