Job 3:13

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Job 10:22 : 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are 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. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
  • Job 21:13 : 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
  • Job 21:23 : 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: 4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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