Job 3:17

There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

18And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.

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Cross References

Job 14:13Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me?

Psalms 55:5In God, I will praise my words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

Ecclesiastes 9:6Likewise, love and hatred and envy have all perished together, nor have they any place in this age and in the work which is done under the sun.

Matthew 10:28And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But instead fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

2 Thessalonians 1:6For certainly, it is just for God to repay trouble to those who trouble you,

Hebrews 4:11Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief.

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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