Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
18The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Cross References
Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
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 →