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Job 3:18
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The captives are completely at rest;they do not hear a taskmaster’s voice.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
In the grave there is rest for the captives who no longer hear the shout of the slave driver.
There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
"There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the taskmaster's voice.
"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
The prisoners are at ease together;They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Everyone is there—
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Even prisoners find relief there; they no longer hear their guards shouting at them.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Even prisoners enjoy peace, free from shouts and harsh commands.
the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor's voice.
the prisoners are at ease together, they hear not the voice of the slave driver;
there are those letten out fre, which haue bene in preson, so that they heare nomore the voyce of the oppressoure:
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour:
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.
And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
And sum tyme boundun togidere with out disese thei herden not the voys of the wrongful axere.
There the prisoners are at ease together; They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Even captives are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.
Those in prison are at rest together. They do not hear the voice of the one who rules over their work.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:
And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they: Job 39:7, Exodus 5:6-8, Exodus 5:15-19, Judges 4:3, Isaiah 14:3, Isaiah 14:4
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:30 - build Job 21:26 - alike Job 21:33 - sweet Ecclesiastes 9:6 - their love
Cross-References
Adonai , God, said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all livestock and wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.
I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
know for certain that Adonai your God will stop driving out these nations from your sight. Instead, they will become a snare and a trap for you, whipping your sides and pricking your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Adonai your God has given you.
he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave; Adonai took; blessed be the name of Adonai ."
the hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, while the thirsty are panting, eager to swallow his wealth.
then let thistles grow instead of wheat and noxious weeds instead of barley! "The words of Iyov are finished."
You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed, then say, "People, repent!"
wrapped in light as with a robe. You spread out the heavens like a curtain,
Thorns and snares beset the way of the stubborn; he who values his life keeps his distance from them.
There it was, overgrown with thistles; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[There] the prisoners rest together,.... "Are at ease", as Mr. Broughton renders the words; such who while they lived were in prison for debt, or were condemned to the galleys, to lead a miserable life; or such who suffered bonds and imprisonment for the sake of religion, at death their chains are knocked off, and they are as much at liberty, and enjoy as much ease, as the dead that never were prisoners; and not only rest together with those who were their fellow prisoners, but with those who never were in prison, yea, with those who cast them into it; for there the prisoners and those that imprisoned them are upon a level, enjoying equal ease and liberty:
they hear not the voice of the oppressor; or "exactor" x; neither of their creditors that demanded their debt of them, and threatened them with a prison, or that detained them in it; nor of the jail keeper that gave them hard words as well as stripes; nor of cruel taskmasters, who kept them to hard service in prison, and threatened them severely if they did not perform it, like the taskmasters in Egypt, Exodus 5:11; but, in the grave, the blustering, terrifying, voice of such, is not heard.
x × ×ש "exactoris", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There the prisoners rest together - Herder translates this, âThere the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.â The Septuagint strangely enough, âThere they of old (Î¿Ì Î±Î¹ÌÏÌνιοι hoi aioÌnioi) assembled together (οÌÎ¼Î¿Î¸Ï Î¼Î±Î´Î¿Ìν homothumadon) have not heard the voice of the exactor.â The Hebrew word ש××× shaÌ'an means âto rest, to be quiet, to be tranquilâ; and the sense is, that they are in the grave freed from chains and oppressions.
They hear not the voice of the oppressor - Of him who exacted taxes, and who laid on them heavy burdens, and who imprisoned them for imaginary crimes. He who is bound in chains, and who has no other prospect of release, can look for it in the grave and will find it there. Similar sentiments are found respecting death in Seneca, ad Marcian, 20: âMots omnibus finis, multis remedium, quibusdam votum; haec servitutem invito domino remittit; haec captivorum catenas levat; haec a carcere reducit, quos exire imperium impofens vetuerat; haec exulibus, in pairtam semper animum oculosque tendentibus, ostendit, nibil interesse inter quos quisque jaceat; haec, ubi res communes fortuna male divisit, et aequo jure genitos allure alii donavit, exaequat omnia; haec est, quae nihil quidquam alieno fecit arbitrio; haec est, ea qua nemo humilitatem guam sensit; haec est, quae nuili paruit.â The sense in Job is, that all are at liberty in death. Chains no longer bind; prisons no longer incarccrate; the voice of oppression no longer alarms.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:18. The prisoners rest together — Those who were slaves, feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures of life, are quiet in the grave together; and the voice of the oppressor, the hard, unrelenting task-master, which was more terrible than death, is heard no more. They are free from his exactions, and his mouth is silent in the dust. This may be a reference to the Egyptian bondage. The children of Israel cried by reason of their oppressors or task-masters.
