Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together; 1 they do not hear the voice of the slave driver. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 trouble; 1 there the weary are at rest. 1
19Both small and great people are there; 1 the servant is free from his master there. 1
Cross References
Exodus 5:15So the Israelite foremen came to Pharaoh and cried out to him. They said, “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Job 39:7He laughs in scorn at the noises in the city; 1 he does not hear the driver's shouts. 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 →