Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
Cross References
Job 14:13Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?
Psalms 55:5at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:
Hebrews 4:11Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man 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 →