Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Now I would certainly be lying down in peace;
I would be asleep.
Then I would be at rest

International Standard Version

"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}

Modern King James verseion

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,

NET Bible

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁכב 
Shakab 
Usage: 210

and been quiet
שׁקט 
Shaqat 
Usage: 41

ישׁן 
Yashen 
Usage: 19

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Had Died

12 Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck? 13 For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me. 14 With kings and counselors of the earth building the wastes for themselves;

Cross References

Job 7:8-10

The eye of him seeing me shall not look after me: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not

Job 7:21

And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

Job 10:22

A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

Job 14:10-12

And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he?

Job 17:13

If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.

Job 19:27

Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.

Job 21:13

Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.

Job 21:23

This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

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