Job 3:14

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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,	With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;	Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

With kings^H4428 and counsellors^H3289 of the earth^H776, which built^H1129 desolate places^H2723 for themselves;

Original Hebrew

עִם־מְלָכִים וְיֹעֲצֵי אָרֶץ הַבֹּנִים חֳרָבֹות לָמֹו׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
עִם	'im-	H5973	HR	with
מְ֭לָכִים	Me.la.khim	H4428	HNcmpa	kings
וְ/יֹ֣עֲצֵי	ve./Yo.'a.tzei	H3289	HC/Vqrmpc	and/ counselors of
אָ֑רֶץ	'A.retz	H776	HNcbsa	(the) earth
הַ/בֹּנִ֖ים	ha./bo.Nim	H1129	HTd/Vqrmpa	the/ (ones who) rebuilt
חֳרָב֣וֹת	cho.ra.Vot	H2723	HNcfpa	ruins
לָֽ/מוֹ	la./mo		HR/Sp3mp	for/ themselves

Strong's References

H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
H1129 — בָּנָה (bânâh, baw-naw'): a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively); (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.
H2723 — חׇרְבָּה (chorbâh, khor-baw'): feminine of חֹרֶב (chôreb) H2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation; decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
H3289 — יָעַץ (yâʻats, yaw-ats'): a primitive root; to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve; advertise, take advise, advise (well), consult, (give, take) counsel(-lor), determine, devise, guide, purpose.
H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ (mâlak) H4427; a king; king, royal.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H5973 — עִם (ʻim, eem): from עָמַם (ʻâmam) H6004; adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English); accompanying, against, and, as ([idiom] long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References

kings — 1 Kings 2:10, 1 Kings 11:43, Job 30:23, Psalms 49:6-10, Psalms 49:14, Psalms 89:48, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Isaiah 14:10-16, Ezekiel 27:18-32
which built — Job 15:28, Isaiah 5:8, Ezekiel 26:20

Reciprocal references (1): Isaiah 22:16

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