Job 3:13
What does Job 3:13 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 3:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
KJV
King James Version · 1611For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept--then there is rest to me,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 Sheol, whither thou goest.
- Job 10:22
The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
- Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- Job 7:8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
- Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
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