Job 3:17
The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
18The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
Cross References
Job 14:13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.
Psalms 55:5Feare and trembling are come vpon mee, and an horrible feare hath couered me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is now perished, and they haue no more portion for euer, in all that is done vnder the sunne.
Matthew 10:28And feare yee not them which kill the bodie, but are nor able to kill the soule: but rather feare him, which is able to destroy both soule and bodie in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,
Hebrews 4:11Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same ensample 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 →