Job 3:13 - Forerunner Commentary

Job 3:13

11 “Why^a did I not die at birth?
Why did I not¹ perish when I came from the womb?

12 ^aWhy did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest

14 With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who ^abuilt ruins for themselves,

15 Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;

16 Or why was I not hidden ^alike a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the¹ weary are at ^arest.

18 There the prisoners¹ rest together;
^aThey do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.

20 “Why^a is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the ^bbitter of soul,

21 Who ^along for death, but it does not come,
And search for it more than ^bhidden treasures;

Topical Studies for Job 3:13:

Rest {Forerunner Commentary}
Rest {Nave's Topical Bible}

Other topical entries containing Job 3:13:

Murmuring {Torrey's Topical Textbook}