Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
World English Bible British
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? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
14with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 10:22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
Job 14:12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 19:27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
Job 21:23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
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 →