Job 3:18
And the men of old time have together 1 Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; 1 There the wearied in body rest. 1
19The small and great are there, 1 And the servant that feared his lord. 1
Cross References
Exodus 5:15And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants?
Job 39:7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, 1 And hears not the chiding of the tax gatherer. 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 →