King James Version
Job 3:14 in the King James Version says “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;” — study this verse from Job chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;”
Job 3:14 · KJV
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
KJV Study — Public Domain
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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