World English Bible

Job 3:14

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

Verse in context — Job 3

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.