Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
18The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Cross References
Job 14:13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me,
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,
Hebrews 4:11Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.
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 →