Job 3:18
At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:
19Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15Then came in the overseers of the sons of Israel, and made outcry unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore shouldst thou do thus to thy servants?
Job 39:7He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not;
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 →