Job 3:17

There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;

18[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.

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Cross References

Job 14:13Oh who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then!

Psalms 55:5(55:6) Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.

Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, are now already lost; and they will have never more a portion 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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