Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be sleeping and at rest,
Free Bible 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 there a lap for me to lie on, or breasts for me to suck?
14along with the kings of this world and their officials whose palaces now lie in ruins,
Cross References
Job 7:8Those watching me won't see me anymore; your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
Job 10:22the land of total darkness where death's shadow lies, a place of chaos where light itself is darkness.”
Job 14:12so human beings lie down and don't get up again. Until the heavens cease to exist they will not awake from their sleep.
Job 19:27I myself will see him—with my own eyes, and not those of someone else! The thought overcomes me!
Job 21:23One person dies in good health, totally comfortable and secure.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you do, do it with all your strength, for when you go to the grave there's no more working or thinking, no more knowing or being wise.
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 →