Job 3:14
“With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;”
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.
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“But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.”