Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
18There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Cross References
Job 14:13O that thou wouldst hide me in the under-world! That thou wouldst conceal me till thy wrath be past! That thou wouldst appoint me a time, and then remember me!
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling have seized me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they a portion any more for ever in any thing which taketh place under the sun.
Matthew 10:28And fear not those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6since it will be just with God to repay distress to them that distress you,
Hebrews 4:11Let us then strive to enter into that rest, that no one may fall, as a like example 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 →