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Job 3:13

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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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  1. Ecclesiastes 9:10Rank 1 from verse 13
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    10Whatsoever 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.

  2. Job 14:10–12Rank 2 from verse 13
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    10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

    12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  3. Job 21:13Rank 3 from verse 13
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    13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  4. Ecclesiastes 6:3–5Rank 4 from verse 13
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    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.

    4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

    5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

  5. Job 10:22Rank 5 from verse 13
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    22A 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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Job 3:13

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

lain

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Past-tense or past-participial form of lie (to recline, rest, remain, or be situated).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

still

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Sense 1: Continuing without interruption, or remaining as before. Sense 2: Quiet, silent, or without motion. Sense 3: Even yet or nevertheless. Sense 4: To make quiet or cause to cease.

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COMBINED MEANING

quiet

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Sense 1: Stillness, rest, peace, or freedom from disturbance. Sense 2: Calm or still, or to make calm.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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slept

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Past-tense or past-participial form of sleep. Sense 1: Rested in natural sleep. Sense 2: By figure, lay in death.

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COMBINED MEANING

rest

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Sense 1: To cease from labour or motion, lie still, settle, remain, or rely; also repose, peace, security, or an abiding place. Sense 2: The remaining persons or things after a part is distinguished.

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12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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

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14With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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