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13 For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace;
I would be asleep; then I would be at rest[a]
14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
who rebuild [b] ruins for themselves,
15 or with high officials who have gold,[c]
who fill up their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage,
like infants who did not see the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary[d] are at rest;
18 the prisoners are at ease together;
they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his masters.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:13 Literally “it would be at rest for me”
  2. Job 3:14 Literally “build”
  3. Job 3:15 Literally “gold is for them”
  4. Job 3:17 Literally “weary of strength”
  5. Job 3:19 Or “master”