13 For now I (A)would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

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13 For now I would be lying down(A) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(B)

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11 His (A)bones are full of his youthful strength,
But it lies down with him [a]in the dust.

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  1. Job 20:11 Lit on

11 The youthful vigor(A) that fills his bones(B)
    will lie with him in the dust.(C)

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(A)It is the same for all. There is (B)one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and the unclean; for the person who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good person is, so is the sinner; the one who swears an oath is just as the one who [a]is afraid to swear an oath.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Lit fears an oath

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.(A)

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  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.