Job 3:18
[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
19The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15And the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Job 39:7He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.
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 →