Job 3:17

There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

In Context

16Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

18At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:

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Cross References

Job 14:13Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling, would enter me, And there would have overwhelmed me—a horror!

Ecclesiastes 9:6Both their love and their hatred and their envy, already had perished,—and, portion, had they none any longer, unto times age-abiding, in aught that was done under the sun.

Matthew 10:28And be not in fear, by reason of them that are killing the body,—and, the soul, are not able to kill. But fear, rather, him who is able, both soul and body, to destroy in gehenna!

2 Thessalonians 1:6If, at least, it is a, righteous thing with God, to recompense, affliction, unto them that afflict you,

Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall into the same example, of obstinacy.

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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