Job Chapter 3 verse 14 Holy Bible
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
read chapter 3 in ASV
With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
read chapter 3 in BBE
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
read chapter 3 in DARBY
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
read chapter 3 in KJV
With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
read chapter 3 in WBT
With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
read chapter 3 in WEB
With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
read chapter 3 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - With kings and counsellers of the earth. As a great man himself, nobly born probably, Job expects that his place in another world would have been with kings and nobles (see Isaiah 14:9-11, where the King of Babylon, on entering Sheol, finds himself among "all the kings of the nations"). Which built desolate places for themselves. Some understand "restorers of cities which had become waste and desolate;" others, "builders of edifices which, since they built them, have become desolate;" others, again, "builders of desolate and dreary piles," such as the Pyramids, and the rock-tombs common in Arabia, which were desolate and dreary from the time that they were built. The brevity studied by the writer makes his meaning somewhat obscure.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Desolate places--i.e., gorgeous tombs and splendid sepulchres, which, being tenanted only by the dead, are desolate; or it may mean that the places so built of old are now ruined and desolate. In the former sense it is possible that the Pyramids may here be hinted at.
