TheWay BibleJob 3:13 KJV
Job · chapter 3 · verse 13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,Job 3:13 · King James Version
Job 3:13 in context
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- stillshâkabto lie downH7901 →
- quietshâqaṭto reposeH8252 →
- sleptyâshênproperly, to be slack or languidH3462 →
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Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-19