Parallel Verses

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,

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,

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 receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 “For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14 With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;


Cross References

Job 7:8-10

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Job 7:21

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

Job 10:22

The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”

Job 14:10-12

“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?

Job 17:13

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

Job 19:27

Whom I myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My heart faints within me!

Job 21:13

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:23

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, 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 where you are going.

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