Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3:13 in other translations
| BSB | For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest |
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| WEB | For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, |
| ASV | For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, |
| YLT | For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept--then there is rest to me, |
| DARBY | For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest, |
| BBE | For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, |
| Webster | For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, |
What does Job 3:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 3:11-19
Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire…
Job 3:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 3:13
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
- Job 21:23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Job 10:22
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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Context
- Job 3:12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pues que ahora yaciera yo, y reposara; durmiera, y entonces tuviera reposo, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car maintenant je serais couché et je serais tranquille, je dormirais: alors j’aurais du repos, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn jetzt würde ich liegen und rasten, ich würde schlafen: dann hätte ich Ruhe, - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem |