Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 never saw light.
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Cross References
Job 14:13Oh that Thou wouldest hide me in the nether-world, that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past, that Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! —
Psalms 55:5(55-6) Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is long ago perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing 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 →