Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
In Context
17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
19The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Cross References
Exodus 5:15Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
Job 39:7\39:4\Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →