Job 3:13


“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],

Job 7:8-10


“The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more;
Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.

Job 7:21


“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my sin and guilt?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”

Job 10:22


The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”

Job 14:10-12


“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 17:13


“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

Job 19:27


Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

Job 21:13


“They fully enjoy their days in prosperity,
And so go down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) in a [peaceful] moment.

Job 21:23


“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and quiet and satisfied;

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

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Summary

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Then had i been at rest

Bible References

Then had i been at rest

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.