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
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
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,
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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;
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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.