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Job 3:14

What does Job 3:14 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 3:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

Context

v.13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

v.14This passage

v.15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 15:28

    And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

  • 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 27:18

    Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

  • Ezekiel 26:20

    then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

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