## For now I would have been lying down quietly; I would have slept and been at rest ##

In two different ways, Job envisions that he had never been born or that he had died at birth.  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

## I would have been lying down quietly ##

Job imagines something that could have happened in the past but which did not happen, as noted above.  AT: "I should have been lying down quietly." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])

## lying down quietly ##

AT: "asleep, resting peacefully" (See: UDB)

## lying down ##

The writer uses this phrase as a mild way of referring to death because direct references to death may be considered unpleasant or offensive. AT: "no longer alive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])

## I would have slept and been at rest ##

(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])

## slept...at rest ##

The writer uses this phrase as a mild way of referring to death because direct references to death may be considered unpleasant or offensive. AT: "no longer alive."

## with kings and counselors of the earth ##

AT: "with kings and their advisers."