Job 3:18
16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
- KJV
- There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- WEB
- There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
- ASV
- There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
- DARBY
- The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
- BLB
- together the captives are at rest; they do not hear the voice oppressing [them].
- ÅB
- Der har alle fanger ro, de hører ikke driverens røst.
- OTB
- Fangene har det godt sammen;
de hører ikke undertrykkerens stemme. - B1930
- Der har alle fanger ro, de hører ikke driverens røst.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 39:7
He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Read in contextExodus 5:15–19
So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Read in contextJudges 4:3
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
Read in contextExodus 5:6–8
That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
Read in contextIsaiah 14:3–4
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
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