Job 3:13
For now should I have lain down and been quiet.I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
New Heart English 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 the knees receive me?Or why the breast, that I should suck?
14with kings and counselors of the earth,who built up waste places for themselves;
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more.Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall 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 shall not awake,nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.My eyes shall 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 device, 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 →