Holy Scripture
Job 3:14
A church father on this verse
“It seems to me that Job attempts to humble these noble characters and to persuade them not to attach a great importance to human affairs, because he has not introduced the kings into this passage without purpose or at random. Job speaks of "those who gloried in their swords." Notice again how amid his afflictions Job…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who gloried in their swords;
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In context
12And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?
13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
— Job 3:14 —
15Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, Who filled their houses with silver:
16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.