Job 3:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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.

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    14With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

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  • Job 3:10-12
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    10Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

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  • Job 3:25-26
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    25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

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    13When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

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  • Ps 131:2
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    2See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Job 7:21
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    21And 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.

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    2I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

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    5I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.

  • Job 7:3-4
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    3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

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    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

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    13In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

  • Ps 32:3
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    3When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Job 6:10
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    10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

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    24When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

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    13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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    7All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

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    3Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

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    13Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

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    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

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    5If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

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    28Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

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    40This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

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    13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

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    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

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    18And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

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    17If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

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    15What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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