Job 3:13
If I had died at the time when I was born, I would be asleep, resting peacefully i in the place where the dead people are.
Translation for Translators
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
12I wish that my mother had not [RHQ] allowed me to live. I wish that she had not nursed me.
Cross References
Job 7:8God, you [SYN] see me now, but some day you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone because I will be dead.
Job 10:22a place of darkness and dark shadows, where everything is confused/disordered, where even a small amount of light there is like darkness (OR, there is no light, only darkness).’”
Job 14:12people lie down and die and do not get up again. Until the heavens disappear, people who die [EUP] do not wake up, and no one can wake them up.
Job 19:27I will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed as I think about that!
Job 21:23Some people die while they are very healthy, while they are peaceful, when they are not afraid of anything.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you are able to do, do it with all your energy, because some time you will die, and in the place of the dead where you are going, no one works or plans to do anything or knows anything or is wise.
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 →