Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Cross References
Job 14:13O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Psalms 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you,
Hebrews 4:11Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →