World English Bible

Job 3:13

“For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,”

Verse in context — Job 3

Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.