Job 3:13

American Standard Version (1901)

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
  • Job 19:27 : 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed 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 dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: 4 for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; 5 moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:14-18
    5 verses
    77%

    14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

    17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

    18There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

  • Job 3:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

    11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

    12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

  • Job 3:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

    26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

  • 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

  • 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

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    5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; For Jehovah sustaineth me.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • 19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

  • 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

  • 3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

  • 15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • 10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

  • 13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • 7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.

  • 3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • 3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed;

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 33[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • 5Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

  • 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

  • 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

  • 28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

  • 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

  • 13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

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    8In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

  • 6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

  • 18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

  • 17Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

  • 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • 33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

  • 3Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

  • 27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;