Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Cross References
Job 14:13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Psalms 55:5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28And be not afraid of them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:6if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
Hebrews 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man 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 →