Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
Cross References
Job 7:8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.
Job 10:22A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
Job 14:12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
Job 21:23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
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 →