Job 3:13

Job 3:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
• New International Version (NIV)For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
• English Standard Version (ESV)For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
• New King James Version (NKJV)For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

Context of Job 3:13

11“Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? 12Why did the knees receive me? And why the breasts, that I would nurse? For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death], 14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves; 15Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver.

Job 3:13 word by word

כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה שָׁכַ֣בְתִּי וְאֶשְׁק֑וֹט יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּי אָ֤ז׀ יָנ֬וּחַֽ לִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For now should I have lain stillשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
• and been quietשָׁקַטshâqaţ · to quietH8252
• I should have sleptיָשֵׁןyâshên · to sleepH3462
• then had I been at restנוּחַnûach · to restH5117

Cross-references for Job 3:13

• Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

Commentaries on Job 3:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13For now should I have lain still - In that case I had been insensible; quiet - without these overwhelming agitations; slept - unconscious of evil; been at rest - been out of the reach of calamity and sorrow.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13For now should I have lain still - In this verse Job uses four expressions to describe the state in which be would have been if he had been so happy as to have died when an infant. It is evidently a very pleasant subject to him, and he puts it in a great variety of form. He uses thc words which express the most quiet repose, a state of perfect rest, a gentle slumber; and then in the next verses he says, that instead of being in the miserable condition in…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-19Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-24Job's language shifts from wishing he was never born to grief. He goes from hating life towards an attraction for death. Job asks "why" seven times, as he has grief for his situation (3:11, 12, 16, 20, 23; see Psalms 10:1; 22:1; Jeremiah 20:18; Lamentations 5:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. lain ... quiet ... slept--a gradation. I should not only have lain, but been quiet, and not only been quiet, but slept. Death in Scripture is called "sleep" (Psa 13:3); especially in the New Testament, where the resurrection-awakening is more clearly set forth (1Co 15:51; 1Th 4:14; 5:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 3:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Dead (People)
• Death
• Despondency

In the dictionaries

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• Job, Book of
• Rest

Commentaries on Job 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings