Job 3:13 Cross References - MSB

¹³ For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

⁸ The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. ⁹ As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. ¹⁰ He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

²¹ Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

²² to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? ¹¹ As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, ¹² so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

²⁷ I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

²³ One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

³ A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. ⁴ For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. ⁵ The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

¹⁰ Whatever 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.