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Job 3:13 King James For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
lain . . . quiet . . . slept--a gradation. I should not only have lain, but been quiet, and not only been quiet, but slept. Death in Scripture is called "sleep" (Psa 13:3); especially in the New Testament, where the resurrection-awakening is more clearly set forth (Co1 15:51; Th1 4:14; Th1 5:10).
 
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10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.