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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 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,
King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
American Standard Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
New English Translation
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
World English Bible
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.