Job 3:13
Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
LXX2012 (US English)
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? and why did I suck the breasts?
14with kings and councillors of the earth, who gloried in their swords;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
Job 10:22to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.
Job 14:12And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
Job 19:27which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.
Job 21:23One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go.
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 →