Job 3:18
The katon and gadol are there; 1 and the eved is free from his adon. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; 1 they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1
19Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, 1 and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh; 1
Cross References
Exodus 5:15Then the foremen of the Bnei Yisroel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why dealest thou thus with thy avadim?
Job 39:7He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), 1 neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver. 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 →