Devine Scripture

Job 3:13

Job chapter 3 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

v.13This passage

v.14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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.