Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
19The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: 'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Job 39:7He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings of the 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 →