Job 3:13
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
In other translations
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Hebrew words
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