What does Job 3:13 mean?

Job 3:13 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 3:13 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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