Job 3:13 · KJV
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
— Job 3:13
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3 — Context
Why 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:
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do {it} with thy might; for {there is} no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}
Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. {in wealth: or, in mirth}
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; {though} my reins be consumed within me. {another: Heb. a stranger} {though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day} {within...: Heb. in my bosom}
Job 21:23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. {his...: Heb. his very, or, the strength of, his perfection}
Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.