Job 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,”
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“with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;”
King James Version · Public Domain“With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 3:14 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 2:10Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
- 1 Kings 11:43And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
- Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
- Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
- Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
- Isaiah 14:10They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
- Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
- Isaiah 22:16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
- Isaiah 58:12Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
- Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 27:18Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,
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