13 For so should I now have [a]lain and been quiet, I should have slept then, and been at rest,

14 With the kings and counselors of the earth, which have built themselves [b]desolate places:

15 Or with the princes that had gold, and have filled their houses with silver.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:13 The vehemency of his afflictions made him to utter these words, as though death were the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaketh not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to burst out in this error of the wicked.
  2. Job 3:14 He noteth the ambition of them, which for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would hereby make their names immortal.

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