Job 3:17

There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; 1 There the wearied in body rest. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1

18And the men of old time have together 1 Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice. 1

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Cross References

Job 14:13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, 1 And hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, 1 And thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me! 1

Psalms 55:5In God I will praise my words; 1 All the day have I hoped in God; 1 I will not fear what flesh shall do to me. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, and their hatred, 1 And their envy, have now perished; 1 Yea, there is no portion for them anymore forever 1 In all that is done under the sun. 1

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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