Job 3:13
For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?
14with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,
Cross References
Job 7:8Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
Job 10:22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.
Job 14:12just so, when a man is fallen asleep, he will not rise again, until the heavens are worn away; he will not awaken, nor rise from his sleep.
Job 19:27It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.
Job 21:23This one dies strong and healthy, rich and happy.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.
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 →