Job 3:18
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
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 →