Job 3:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With kings - Reposing as they do. This is the language of calm meditation on what would have been the consequence if he had died when he was an infant. He seems to delight to dwell on it. He cont...
Job 3:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (k) desolate places for themselves; (k) He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in...
Job 3:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Lamentation. Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we have instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born...
Job 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

desolate places . ruins: i.e. places (tombs or monuments) already going to ruins.
Job 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; With kings and counsellors of the earth - I believe this translation to be perfectly correct. The counsellors, יעצ...
Job 3:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Which built desolate places— The Hebrew word חרבות charaboth rendered desolate places, comes from an Arabic root, denoting buildings of the pompous kind; and so may signify apartments of great...
Job 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; With kings ... which built desolate places for themselves - who built up for themselves what proved to be...
Job 3:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Curses his Day Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of...
Job 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Job 3:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1-26 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which ha...
Job 3:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Is Life Worth Living? Job 3:1-26 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2 ; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators,...
Job 3:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better...
Job 3:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the daw...
Job 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

With the kings and counsellors of the earth ,.... From whom he might descend, he being a person of great distinction and figure; and so, had he died, he would have been buried in the sepulchres of h...
Job 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Ver. 14. With kings and counsellors of the earth ] q.d. Those that here have been most negotious, and (as the...
Job 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For now should I have lain still, and been quiet Free from those torments of body, and that anguish of mind, which now oppress me. With kings and counsellors of the earth I had then been as hap...
Job 3:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress...
Job 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Complaint of Life. B. C. 1520. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not...
Job 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With kings; I had then been as happy as the proudest monarchs, who after all their great achievements and enjoyments go down into their graves, where I also should have been sweetly reposed. Which...
Job 3:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Notes Job 3:5 . “ Let the blackness of the day terrify it .” Margin, “ Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day ” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם ( chimrire-yom ) gives rise to two class...
Job 3:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spake in poetic effusions of verse. They say the sam...
Job 3:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day. The peril of impulsive speech In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve...
Job 3:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech w...
Job 3:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Longs for Death
Job 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:43 ; 1 Kings 2:10 ; Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Ezekiel 26:20 ; Ezekiel 27:18-32 ; Isaiah 14:10-16 ; Isaiah 5:8 ; Job 15:28 ; Job 30:23 ; Psalms 49:14 ; Psalms 49:6-10 ; Psalms 89:48
Job 3:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off...
Job 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Kings — I had then been as happy as the proudest monarchs, who after all their great achievements and enjoyments, go down into their graves. Built — Who to shew their wealth and power, or to leave...

Job 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 3:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 3:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 3:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 3:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 3:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 3:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 3:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 3:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 3:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 3:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 3:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes