Job 3:13
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- For da kunne jeg nå ligge og hvile; jeg kunne sove og hadde da ro -
- OTB
- For nå ville jeg hvile i fred;
jeg ville sove og være i ro, - B1930
- For da kunde jeg nu ligge og hvile; jeg kunde sove og hadde da ro -
- BSB
- For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- KJV
- For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- WEB
- For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
- ASV
- For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
- DARBY
- For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- BLB
- For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept—then there would be rest for me
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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.
Les i sammenhengJob 14:10–12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Les i sammenhengJob 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Les i sammenhengJob 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.
Les i sammenhengEcclesiastes 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.
Les i sammenhengJob 21:23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Les i sammenhengJob 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.
Les i sammenhengJob 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.
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