Job 3:13 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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,

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest--

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Job 3:13 Cross References

XREF:

Job 7:8 "The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer; Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Job 7:21 "Why then do You not pardon my transgression And take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust; And You will seek me, but I will not be."

Job 10:21 Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Job 10:22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."

Job 14:10 "But man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and where is he?

Job 14:20 "You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away.

Job 16:22 "For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

Job 17:13 "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;

Job 19:25 "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

Job 21:13 "They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:23 "One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and satisfied;

Job 24:19 "Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 24:20 "A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.

Job 26:5 "The departed spirits tremble Under the waters and their inhabitants.

Job 26:6 "Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness or deep shadow Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:13 For now should I have {i} lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
(i) The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to break out in this error of the wicked.

MHC:

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 to die, only that we may be delivered from the troubles of this life, savours of corruption. It is our wisdom and duty to make the best of that which is, be it living or dying; and so to live to the Lord, and die to the Lord, as in both to be his, Ro 14:8. Observe how Job describes the repose of the grave; There the wicked cease from troubling. When persecutors die, they can no longer persecute. There the weary are at rest: in the grave they rest from all their labours. And a rest from sin, temptation, conflict, sorrows, and labours, remains in the presence and enjoyment of God. There believers rest in Jesus, nay, as far as we trust in the Lord Jesus and obey him, we here find rest to our souls, though in the world we have tribulation.

CONC:

Asleep Lain Peace Quiet Rest Sleep Slept

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