Job 3:13
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept — then there is rest to me,
Young's Literal Translation
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
12Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.
Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
Job 14:12And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
Job 19:27Whom I — I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
Job 21:23This [one] dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 9:10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol 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 →