Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
In Context
12Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
14With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
Job 10:22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Job 14:12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
Job 21:23One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →