TheWay BibleJob 3:18 KJV
Job · chapter 3 · verse 18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.Job 3:18 · King James Version
Job 3:18 in context
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prisonersʼâçîyrboundH615 →
- togetheryachadproperly, a unitH3162 →
- voiceqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- restshâʼanto lollH7599 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
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Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-19