Job 3:13 “For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest”

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

World English Bible

For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

American Standard Version

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

Geneva Bible 1599

For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

Darby Translation

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Young's Literal Translation

For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept — then there is rest to me,

Bible in Basic English

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

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Cross references

“then had I been at rest”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5

Ecclesiastes 9:10 · BSB

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 · BSB

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off…

Also

Job 14:10–12 Job 21:13 Job 10:22 Job 19:27 Job 21:23 Job 7:21

Job 14:10–12 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 21:13 · BSB

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Job 10:22 · BSB

to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Job 19:27 · BSB

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Job 21:23 · BSB

One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Job 7:21 · BSB

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

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