NET Bible
"For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace"
— Job 3:13, NET Bible
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
“For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, ”
“For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,”
“For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:”
“For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,”
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?