Job 3:14
Good News Translation
sleeping like the kings and rulers who rebuilt ancient palaces.

New Revised Standard Version
with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuild ruins for themselves,

Contemporary English Version
with kings and their advisors whose palaces lie in ruins,

New American Bible
With kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt what were ruins

Douay-Rheims Bible
With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

kings.

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

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 Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

Psalm 49:6-10,14 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, . . .

Psalm 89:48 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Ecclesiastes 8:8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

Isaiah 14:10-16 All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us. . . .

Ezekiel 27:18-32 The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour. . . .

which built.

Job 15:28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?

Ezekiel 26:20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,

Context
Job Laments His Birth
13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep: 14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:15Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:…
Cross References
Job 12:17
He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.

Job 12:18
He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.

Job 15:28
He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

Isaiah 58:12
And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

Job 3:13
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