Verse 13

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

Referenced Verses

• Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
• Job 10:22 : 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
• Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? 11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
• Job 17:13 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
• Job 19:27 : 27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
• Job 21:13 : 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
• Job 21:23 : 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
• Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he. 4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered. 5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.