Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
World English Bible Classic
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 not been, as infants who never saw light.
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Cross References
Job 14:13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Psalms 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
2 Thessalonians 1:6For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Hebrews 4:11Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same 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 →