Job 3:17
There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
In Context
16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants — they have not seen light.)
18Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
Cross References
Job 14:13O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
Psalms 55:5Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.
Matthew 10:28'And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
2 Thessalonians 1:6since [it is] a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you — trouble,
Hebrews 4:11May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
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 →