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

Bible Comments

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 built desolate places for themselves; which, to show their great wealth and power, or to leave behind them a glorious name, rebuilt ruined cities, or built new cities and palaces, and other monuments, in places where before there was mere solitude and wasteness.

Job 3:14

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