Job 3:18
There prisoners take it easy—they don't hear the commands of their oppressors.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
19Both small and great are there, and slaves are freed from their masters.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15The Israelite supervisors went to Pharaoh to complain, saying, “Why are you treating us your servants like this?
Job 39:7It despises the noise of the city; it doesn't need to listen to the shouts of a driver.
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 →