Job 3:17
Good News Translation
In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.

New Revised Standard Version
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Contemporary English Version
In the world of the dead, the wicked and the weary rest without a worry. *

New American Bible
There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

the wicked.

Job 14:13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Psalm 55:5-8 Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. . . .

Matthew 10:28 And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Luke 12:4 And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

2 Thessalonians 1:6,7 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you: . . .

2 Peter 2:8 For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

the weary.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

Hebrews 4:9,11 There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
16Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light. 17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:19
And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Job 3:18
And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.

Job 17:16
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 3:16
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