Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; while Thine eyes are upon me, I am gone.
Job 10:22A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job 14:12So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I, even I, shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another's. My reins are consumed within me.
Job 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand attaineth to do by thy strength, that do; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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 →