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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 13

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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
King James Version
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
American Standard Version
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
New English Translation
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
World English Bible
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?