Job 3:13
Now I should have lain down and been quiet, 1 I should have slept and been at rest, 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
12And why did the knees support me? 1 And why did I suck the breasts? 1
14With kings and counselors of the earth, 1 Who gloried in their swords; 1
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: 1 Thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more. 1
Job 10:22To a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, 1 Neither can anyone see the life of mortals.
Job 14:12And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again 1 Till the heaven be dissolved, 1 And they shall not awake from their sleep. 1
Job 19:27Which I am conscious of in myself, 1 Which mine eye has seen, and not another, 1 But all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom. 1
Job 21:23One shall die in his perfect strength, 1 And wholly at ease and prosperous; 1
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand shall find to do, 1 Do with all thy might; 1 For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, 1 Nor wisdom, in Hades whither thou goest. 1
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 →