Job 3:13

New International Reader's Version

If all of that hadn’t happened, I would be lying down in peace. I’d be asleep and at rest in the grave.

Cross References

Job 10:21

Turn away before I go to the place I can’t return from. It’s the land of gloom and total darkness.

Job 10:22

It’s the land of darkest night and total darkness and disorder. There even the light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 14:20

You overpower them completely, and then they’re gone. You change the way they look and send them to their graves.

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass by. Then I’ll take the path of no return.

Job 17:13

Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.

Job 19:25

I know that my redeemer lives. In the end he will stand on the earth.

Job 19:27

I myself will see him with my own eyes. I’ll see him, and he won’t be a stranger to me. How my heart longs for that day!

Job 21:13

Those who are evil spend their years living well. They go down to their graves in peace.

Job 21:23

Some people die while they are still very strong. They are completely secure. They have an easy life.

Job 21:26

Side by side they lie in the dust of death. The worms in their graves cover all of them.

Job 24:19

Melted snow disappears when the air is hot and dry. And sinners disappear when they go down into their graves.

Job 24:20

Even their mothers forget them. The worms in their graves eat them up. No one remembers sinful people anymore. They are cut down like trees.

Job 26:5

“The spirits of the dead are suffering greatly. So are those that are under the waters. And so are all those that live in them.

Job 26:6

The place of the dead is naked in the sight of God. The grave lies open in front of him.

Job 3:12

Why was I placed on her knees? Why did her breasts give me milk?

Job 34:22

There is no deep shadow or total darkness where those who do what is evil can hide.

Job 7:21

Why don’t you forgive the wrong things I’ve done? Why don’t you forgive me for my sins? I’ll soon lie down in the dust of my grave. You will search for me. But I’ll be gone.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10

No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.

Ezekiel 32:27

But they do not lie down with the other dead soldiers of long ago. Those soldiers and their weapons had gone down into the place of the dead. Their swords had been placed under their heads. Their shields rest on their bones. The soldiers of Meshek and Tubal do not lie down with them. This is true even though they had also spread terror while they were alive.