Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Majority Standard Bible
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 were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Job 14:12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
Job 21:23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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 →