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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
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,
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 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 go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck? 13 For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest 14 with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,
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Cross References
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.
Job 7:21
And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 10:22
a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.
Job 14:10-12
But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?
Job 17:13
If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;
Job 19:27
whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger's; though my heart be exhausted in my bosom.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job 21:23
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.