Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from trouble; 1 there the weary are at rest. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, 1 like infants that never see the light. 1
18There the prisoners are at ease together; 1 they do not hear the voice of the slave driver. 1
Cross References
Job 14:13Oh, that you would hide me away in Sheol away from troubles, 1 and that you would keep me in private until your wrath is over, 1 that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind! 1
Psalms 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, 1 and horror has overwhelmed me. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love, hatred, and envy 2 have vanished long ago. 1 They will never have a place again 2 in anything done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6It is righteous for God to return affliction to those who afflict you,
Hebrews 4:11Therefore let us be eager to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the kind of disobedience that they did.
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 →