Job 3:13

Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3

“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”Job 3:13

What Does Job 3:13 Mean?

Job 3:13 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 13 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 14 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (14)

These passages are connected to Job 3:13 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Job 14:12“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”Job 10:21“Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;”Job 14:10“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”Job 21:13“They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.”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.”Ezekiel 32:27“And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.”Luke 16:22“And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;”Job 7:8“The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.”Job 7:21“And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.”Job 10:22“A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.”Job 17:13“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”Job 19:27“Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”Job 21:23“One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.”Ecclesiastes 6:3“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.”

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