Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
19The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do thou deal thus with thy servants?
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
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 →