Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
BSB
ASV
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
KJV
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Then should I have been quiet; and had he kept his temper, his even easy temper still, which he was in as recorded in the two foregoing chapters, entirely resigned to the holy will of God and acquiescing in it, he might have been quiet now; his soul, at least, might have dwelt at ease, even when his body lay in pain, Ps. xxv.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
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Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
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If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
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Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?