Verse 13

For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he? 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,
  • Job 19:27 : 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
  • Job 21:13 : 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
  • Job 21:23 : 23 One person dies in the full vigor of his strength, completely secure and at ease,
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. 4 For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness. 5 Though it has never seen the sun or known anything, it has more rest than that man.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.