Parallel Verses
King James Version
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
New American Standard Bible
I would have slept then, I would have 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,
Julia Smith Translation
For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me.
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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Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Cross References
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 10:22
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job 21:23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.