Job 3:13 - Exposition

For now should I have lain still and been quiet . "In that case, I should now ( עתָּה ) have been lying still and resting myself," instead of tossing about, and being full of restlessness and suffering." I should have slept . The life in the intermediate state is called "sleep," even in the New Testament ( Matthew 9:24 ; John 11:11 ; Acts 7:60 ; 1 Corinthians 15:18 , 1 Corinthians 15:51 , etc.). Job, perhaps, imagined it to be, actually, a sound, dreamless slumber. Then should I have been at rest; literally, then ( אז ) would there have been rest for me. "