Job 3:13

Verse 13 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

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Job 3:13 in the World English Bible

For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
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Matthew Henry on Job 3:13

His condition would have been much better than now it was (v. 13): "Then should I have lain still, and been quiet, which now I cannot do, I cannot be, but am still tossing and unquiet; then I should have slept, whereas now sleep departeth from my eyes; then had I been at rest, whereas now I am restless."

Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:11–19: Job's Complaint of Life. (b. c. 1520.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.