Job 3:14 · KJV
“With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;”
— Job 3:14
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3 — Context
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.
Cross References
Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Isaiah 14:10-16
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Psalms 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. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}
Psalms 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.
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. {Rehoboam: Gr. Roboam}
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. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}
Job 30:23
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe unto them that join house to house, {that} lay field to field, till {there be} no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! {they: Heb. ye}