Job 3:18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job 3:18 in other translations
| BSB | The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, |
| DARBY | The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
| BBE | There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. |
| Webster | There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. |
What does Job 3:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 3:11-19
Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire…
Job 3:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 3:18
- Job 39:7
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
- Exodus 5:15-19
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. …
- Judges 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Exodus 5:6-8
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Isaiah 14:3-4
And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
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Context
- Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- Job 3:18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- Job 3:19
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Job 3:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Allí asimismo reposan los cautivos; no oyen la voz del exactor. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les prisonniers demeurent ensemble tranquilles, ils n’entendent pas la voix de l’exacteur; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | rasten die Gefangenen allesamt, hören nicht die Stimme des Treibers. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris. |