With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.Job 3:14 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWith kings and counsellors of the earth - I believe this translation to be perfectly correct. The counsellors, יעצי yoatsey, I suppose to mean the privy council, or advisers of kings; those without whose advice kings seldom undertake wars, expeditions, etc. These mighty agitators of the world are at rest in their graves, after the lives of commotion which they have led among men: most of whom indeed have been the troublers of the peace of the globe.
Which built desolate places - Who erect mausoleums, funeral monuments, sepulchral pyramids, etc., to keep their names from perishing, while their bodies are turned to corruption. I cannot think, with some learned men, that Job is here referring to those patriotic princes who employed themselves in repairing the ruins and desolations which others had occasioned. His simple idea is, that, had he died from the womb, he would have been equally at rest, neither troubling nor troubled, as those defunct kings and planners of wars and great designs are, who have nothing to keep even their names from perishing, but the monuments which they have raised to contain their corrupting flesh, moldering bones, and dust.
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Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Psalm 49:6-10,14 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches...
Psalm 89:48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death...
Isaiah 14:10-16 All they shall speak and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like to us...
Ezekiel 27:18-32 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon...
which built. Who erect splendid mausoleums, funeral monuments, etc. to keep their names from perishing, while their bodies are turned to corruption.
Job 15:28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place...
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time...
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