Job 3:13 Cross References - Thomson

¹³ I might now have lain still and been quiet; I might have gone to sleep and been at rest;

⁸ The eye of him who seeth me now shall not see me again. Thine eyes are upon me and I am gone. ⁹ I am like a cloud swept clean away from the sky. For when a man goeth down to the mansion of the dead; ¹⁰ he can never reascend again; he can never return again to his own house; nor shall his place know him any more.

²¹ Why hast thou not made an oblivion of my transgression; or a purification for my sin? Now therefore let me depart into the earth: and when thou risest in the morning, I am no more.

²² to a land dark and gloomy; to a land of everlasting darkness; where there is no light; no seeing the life of mortals.

¹⁰ But when a man dieth he is gone: when a mortal falleth, he is no more. ¹¹ For in a course of time a sea is spent; and a river when unsupplied is dried up: ¹² and man when composed in the grave cannot rise again; until the heaven be folded up; they shall not be awakened from their sleep.

¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness.

²⁷ For from the Lord those things have been done to me, of which I alone am conscious; which mine eyes have seen, and no other; and which have all been done to me in my bosom.

¹³ and having spent their life in festivity, they are composed to rest in the peaceful grave.

²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous;

³ Though a man should beget a hundred children and live many years, if during that multitude of years which his days shall continue, his soul shall not be satisfied with an enjoyment of good, and he hath got no burying place, I conclude that an Abortive is better than he. ⁴ Grant that it came in vanity and goeth away in darkness; with darkness also his name shall be covered! ⁵ It indeed never saw the light; and he never knew rest: it hath an advantage over him

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.