Job 3:13

Job 3:13 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

13For now I would be lying down in peace;

I would be asleep and at rest

13“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;

I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

13“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;

I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],

13For now I would be lying down in peace;

I would be asleep and at rest

13For now should I have lain down and been quiet;

I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

13For now I should have lain down and been quiet.

I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

13If all of that hadn’t happened,

I would be lying down in peace.

I’d be asleep and at rest in the grave.

13If I had died at birth,

I would now be resting in peace.

13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,