Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
BSB
ASV
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
KJV
With kings and counsellors 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, 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.
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 behind them a glorious name, rebuilt ruined cities, or built new cities and palaces, in places where before there was mere solitude and wasteness.
The "for themselves" marks their selfishness. MICHAELIS explains it weakly of mausoleums, such as are found still, of stupendous proportions, in the ruins of Petra of Idumea.
The walk8
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Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one…
No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release…
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Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
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Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
until the Ancient of Days arrived and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for them to possess the kingdom.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.