Job 3:13

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

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,

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

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WLC

כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה שָׁכַ֣בְתִּי וְאֶשְׁק֑וֹט יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּי אָ֤ז ׀ יָנ֬וּחַֽ לִֽי׃

LXX-Br

νῦν ἂν κοιμηθεὶς ἡσύχασα, ὑπνώσας δὲ ἀνεπαυσάμην

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever 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.
• Job 14:10–12But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will…
• Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
• Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
• Ecclesiastes 6:3–5A 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…
• Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
• Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
• Job 21:23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
• Job 7:21Why 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.”
• Job 7:8–10The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. He never returns to his house; his place…

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