Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 3:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Role in This Section
Job 3:14 advances the thought unit with the words “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.” Job states “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves” as one poetic claim in Job Imagines Rest He Did Not Receive at Birth.
Read It With
- Job 3:11–3:19
Read Job 3:14 with 3:11–3:19. Read alone, “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks why birth and nurture carried him into life and imagines the grave as a leveling rest for kings, prisoners, laborers, and infants.
Why It Needs Context
Job 3:14 depends on 3:11–3:19; isolating “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Imagines Rest He Did Not Receive at Birth.”
Read Job 3:11–19 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 3:11–3:19 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Imagines Rest He Did Not Receive at Birth.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 11. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Verse 12. 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Verse 13. 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Verse 14. 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Verse 15. 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Verse 16. 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Verse 17. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Verse 18. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Verse 19. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 3:11–3:19 — Job Imagines Rest He Did Not Receive at BirthSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 3:11–3:19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 3:11–3:19
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