Parallel Verses
World English Bible
For now should I have lain down 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 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,
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 receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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Cross References
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
Job 10:22
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Job 14:10-12
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 19:27
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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 children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.