the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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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.
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.
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
And the LORD God said vnto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the field: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate, all the dayes of thy life.
And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Know for a certainety, that the Lord your God will no more driue out any of these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and traps vnto you, and scourges in your sides, and thornes in your eyes, vntill yee perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath giuen you.
And said, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord gaue, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
Whose haruest the hungry eateth vp, and taketh it euen out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth vp their substance.
Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended.
Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men.
Who couerest thy selfe with light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heauens like a curtaine.
Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.
And loe, it was all growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall therof was broken downe:
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 נגש "exactoris", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There the prisoners rest together - Herder translates this, “There the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.” The Septuagint strangely enough, “There they of old (ὁ αἰώνιοι hoi aiōnioi) assembled together (ὁμοθυμαδόν homothumadon) have not heard the voice of the exactor.” The Hebrew word שׁאן shâ'an means “to rest, to be quiet, to be tranquil”; 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: “Mots 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.” 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.
