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Job 3:13
Job 3:13 is verse 13 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
King James Version
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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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Job 3:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ecclesiastes 6:3A 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 off than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:4For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
Ecclesiastes 6:5The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
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.