Job 3:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Job 15:28 : 28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.
  • Isa 14:10-16 : 10 All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you. 12 How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. 16 Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 Those who shall be of 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 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
  • Ezek 27:18-32 : 18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise. 20 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants. 22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. 24 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. 27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake. 29 All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land, 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. 32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 49:6-9 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, And boast in the multitude of their riches-- 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him. 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, No payment is ever enough, 9 That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption. 10 For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, Who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
  • Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:43 : 43 Solomon slept 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 stripped. He makes 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 had not been, As infants who never saw light.

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  • 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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    13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

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  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

  • 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks 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 Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

    17 who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"

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

  • 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

  • 3 Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established;

  • 17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

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    2 The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,{The word "anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or "Christ"} saying,

  • 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • 40 He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

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

  • 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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    5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been 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? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

  • 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;

  • 3 For I was envious of the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • 18 He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

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    15 Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden,

    16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

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

  • 3 Those who put far away the evil day, And cause the seat of violence to come near;

  • 18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; 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 the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

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

  • 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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

    7 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

  • 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous 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 nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't 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 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

  • 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

  • 8 Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

  • 18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;

  • 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?