Job 3:14

In 11 translations

BSB

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

KJV

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

WEB

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

ASV

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

LSV

With kings and counselors of earth, || These building ruins for themselves.

YLT

With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

DBY

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

DRC

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

GNV

With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

JPS

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

LXXE

with kings and councillors of the earth, who gloried in their swords;

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WLC

עִם־מְ֭לָכִים וְיֹ֣עֲצֵי אָ֑רֶץ הַבֹּנִ֖ים חֳרָב֣וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Νῦν ἂν κοιμηθεὶς ἡσύχασα, ὑπνώσας δὲ ἀνεπαυσάμην μετὰ βασιλέων βουλευτῶν γῆς οἳ ἐγαυριῶντο ἐπὶ ξίφεσιν,

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• Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
• Isaiah 14:10–16They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!” Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your…
• 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
• Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
• Ezekiel 27:18–32Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar, and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Psalms 49:6–10They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches. No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice, that he should live…
• 1 Kings 2:10Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

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