Job 3:18
And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.
19The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants?
Job 39:7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
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 →