Job 3:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death] American Standard Version (1901) For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, Common English Bible For now I would be lying down quietly; I’d sleep; rest would be mine Catholic Public Domain Version For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For now I should have been asleep and still; and should have rest in my sleep: |
You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance and send them away.
For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
For I know that my vindicator lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;
whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
And they do not lie with the fallen warriors of long ago who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads and whose shields are upon their bones; for the terror of the warriors was in the land of the living.