Job 3:13
For now should I lie down and be quiet; I should sleep; then should I be at rest,
Noyes 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 did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I might suck?
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up for themselves—ruins!
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more; Thine eyes shall look for me, but I shall not be.
Job 10:22The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job 14:12So man lieth down, and riseth not; Till the heavens be no more, he shall not awake, Nor be roused from his sleep.
Job 19:27Yea, I shall see him my friend; My eyes shall behold him, and not another: For this, my soul panteth within me.
Job 21:23One dieth in the fulness of his prosperity, Being wholly at ease and quiet;
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might! For there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the under-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 →