Job 3:13
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
12For what reason, were there prepared for me—knees? and why—breasts, that I might suck?
14With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:
Cross References
Job 7:8Nor shall see me—the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.
Job 10:22A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.
Job 14:12So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!
Job 21:23This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do,—for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art 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 →