Job 3:13
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
Literal Standard 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 have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
14With kings and counselors of earth, || These building ruins for themselves.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, || Death-shade—and no order, || And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
Job 14:12And man has lain down, and does not rise, || Until the wearing out of the heavens they do not awaken, || Nor are roused from their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I see on my side, || And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, || My reins have been consumed in my bosom.
Job 21:23This [one] dies in his perfect strength, || Wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 9:10All that your hand finds to do, with your power do, for there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol to where you are going.
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 →