Job 3:17

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

In Context

16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

18There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

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Cross References

Job 14:13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

Psalms 55:5\55:4\My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Matthew 10:28And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

2 Thessalonians 1:6For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

Hebrews 4:11Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

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 →

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