Job 3:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה שָׁכַ֣בְתִּי וְאֶשְׁק֑וֹט יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּי אָ֤ז ׀ יָנ֬וּחַֽ לִֽי׃

Transliteration

kî-ʿattâ šākābtî wəʾešqôṭ yāšantî ʾāz yānûaḥ lî

Grammar Details

*kî-ʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - for now
*šākābtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st common singular - I would have lain down
*wəʾešqôṭ*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 1st common singular - and be quiet
*yāšantî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st common singular - I would have slept
*ʾāz*: adverb - then
*yānûaḥ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it would be at rest
*lî*: preposition with 1st common singular suffix - for me

Word Meanings

*kî-ʿattâ*: for now/because now/for then
*šākābtî*: I would have lain down/I would have rested
*wəʾešqôṭ*: and be quiet/and be still/and be at peace
*yāšantî*: I would have slept/I would have rested
*yānûaḥ*: it would be at rest/there would be rest

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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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.

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