Job 3:13
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
For now should I have lain still, and been quiet,.... Signifying, that if the above had been his case, if he had died as…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
For now should I have lain still - In this verse Job uses four expressions to describe the state in which be would have…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 3:11-19
Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it,…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The words receive their pathos from the contrast of his present anguish, Job 3:3.
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