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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—
Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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
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So the Lord God said to the snake, "You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal. You must crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."
the Lord your God will not help you defeat your enemies. They will become like a trap for you. They will cause you pain—like smoke and dust in your eyes. And you will be forced to leave this good land. The Lord your God gave you this land. But you can lose it if you don't obey this command.
and said, "When I was born into this world, I was naked and had nothing. When I die and leave this world, I will be naked and have nothing. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord !"
Hungry people ate all his crops, even the grain growing among the thorns, and greedy people took all he had.
If I ever did any of these bad things, let thorns and weeds grow in my fields instead of wheat and barley!" Job's words are finished.
You bring people into this world, and you change them into dust again.
You wear light like a robe. You spread out the skies like a curtain.
Evil people are trapped by many troubles, but those who want to live avoid them.
Weeds were growing everywhere! Wild vines covered the ground, and the wall around the vineyard was broken and falling 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.
