Job 3:18

The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

In Context

17The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:15Then the officers of the children of Israel came, and cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruants?

Job 39:7Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

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 →

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