Job 3:17

There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

18And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

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Cross References

Job 14:13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

Psalms 55:5In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.

Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

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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