Job 3:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

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  • Job 15:28 : 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
  • Isa 14:10-16 : 10 All they will speak and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 And those from among you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
  • Ezek 26:20 : 20 when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living,
  • Ezek 27:18-32 : 18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your markets: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were in your market. 20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, rams, and goats: in these they were your merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with the finest of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants. 24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas. 27 Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. 29 And all who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 49:6-9 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever: 9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption. 10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 49:14 : 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.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
  • Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:43 : 43 And Solomon rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

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    15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

    16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

    17 There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

  • 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 14 There was a little city with few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great siege works against it.

  • 18 Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    16 They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;

    17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?

    18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house.

  • 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it.

  • 8 But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it.

  • 3 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established.

  • 17 He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

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    2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

  • 10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • 40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • 4 I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

  • 3 Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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    5 He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?'

  • 11 Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all judges of the earth;

  • 3 For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • 18 He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

    16 Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

  • 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.

  • 3 You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

  • 18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • 8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

  • 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • 23 Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

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    6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

    7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

  • 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

  • 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

  • 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, no inhabitant.

  • 7 Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

  • 10 Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.

  • 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasures:

  • 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

  • 18 And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.

  • 14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.

  • 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?