Job 3:13

"For now. would have lain down and been quiet;. would have slept then,. would have been at rest": Death in Scripture is at times compared to sleep (John 11:11;. Thess. Job 4:14). This imagery does not suggest that man is unconscious in death, but rather the word "sleep" describes the state of the physical body in death. "As the sleeper does not cease to exist while his body sleeps, so the dead person continues to exist despite his absence from the region in which those who remain can communicate with him, and that, as sleep is known to be temporary, so the death of the body will be found to be" (Jackson pp. 30-31). Death is preferred, not because Job would cease to exist, but rather because for the righteous it was. place of comfort and rest (Revelation 14:13). Even though Job longs for death to release him from his suffering, Job does not take his own life.