Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 3:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 3:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 3:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book, Job, this verse is talking about powerful people like kings and their advisors who made grand places for themselves but are no longer there. It helps show that even the greatest people can't avoid sadness or difficult times.

Job 3:14: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:5

This verse states that the dead know nothing and have no more reward, contradicting the implication of rest and status in Job 3:14.

Ecclesiastes 9:5: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Contradiction with Philippians 1:21-23

These verses express a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better, contradicting Job 3:14's notion of death as merely rest among kings and counselors.

Philippians 1:21-23: For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.

Contradiction with Psalm 16:11

This verse speaks of joy and eternal pleasures at God's right hand, conflicting with Job 3:14's depiction of death as a rest among the nobility.

Psalm 16:11: Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 5:8

It states a preference to be away from the body and at home with the Lord, contradicting the portrayal of death as simply resting among kings in Job 3:14.

2 Corinthians 5:8: We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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