Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is 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,
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,
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Job Wishes He Had Died
12 Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck? 13 For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me, 14 With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
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Job 7:8-10
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.
Job 7:21
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!
Job 10:22
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'
Job 14:10-12
And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?
Job 17:13
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 19:27
Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
Job 21:13
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.
Job 21:23
This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'
Ecclesiastes 9:10
All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.