Job 3:13
For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
14With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer.
Job 10:22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
Job 14:12So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.
Job 19:27Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
Job 21:23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
Ecclesiastes 9:10All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue 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 →