Job 3:18
Verse 18 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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;
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 3:18 in the World English Bible
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.Read Job 3:18 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 3:18
Death is the prisoner's discharge, the relief of the oppressed, and the servant's manumission (v. 18): There the prisoners, though they walk not at large, yet they rest together, and are not put to work, to grind in that prison-house. They are no more insulted and trampled upon, menaced and terrified, by their cruel task-masters: They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:11–19: Job's Complaint of Life. (b. c. 1520.)
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