Job 3:18
Together prisoners have been at ease, || They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the wicked have ceased troubling, || And there the wearied rest in power.
19Small and great [are] the same there. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you do thus to your servants?
Job 39:7He laughs at the multitude of a city, || He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
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 →