Job 3:13
For now I would have been lying down quietly. 1 I would have slept and been at rest 1
Unlocked Literal 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 her knees welcome me? 1 Why did her breasts receive me so that I should suck? 1
14with kings and counselors of the earth, 1 who built up tombs for themselves that are now in ruins. 1
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of God, who sees me, will see me no more; 1 God's eyes will be on me, but I will not exist. 1
Job 10:22the land that is as dark as midnight, 1 the land of the shadow of death, without any order, 1 where the light is like midnight.'”
Job 14:12so people lie down and do not rise again. 1 Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake 1 nor be roused out of their sleep. 1
Job 19:27I will see him with my own eyes—I, and not someone else. 1 My heart fails within me. 1
Job 21:23One man dies in his full strength, 1 being completely quiet and at ease. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, work at it with your strength, because there is no work or explanation or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going. 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 →