King James Version
Job 3:13 in the King James Version says “For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,” — study this verse from Job chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
Job 3:13 · KJV
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For now should I have lain still”
H7901to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
“I should have slept”
H3462properly, to be slack or languid, i.e., (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
“then had I been at rest”
H5117to rest, i.e., settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, l
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