Job 3:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest”
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“For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
King James Version · Public Domain“For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept--then there is rest to me,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 3:13 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 14:12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
- Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
- Job 21:23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
- 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 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.
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