Job 3:13
For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,
Leeser Tanakh
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
12Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: [thou fixest] thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.
Job 10:22A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.
Job 14:12So doth man lie down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, and will not be roused out of their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I shall myself behold to my happiness, and whom my eyes will see, and not as a stranger, [when even] my reins are consumed within my bosom.
Job 21:23That this one dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, 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 →