Job 3:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׁ֣ם רְ֭שָׁעִים חָ֣דְלוּ רֹ֑גֶז וְשָׁ֥ם יָ֝נ֗וּחוּ יְגִ֣יעֵי כֹֽחַ׃

Transliteration

šām rəšāʿîm ḥādəlû rōgez wəšām yānûḥû yəgîʿê kōaḥ

Grammar Details

*šām*: adverb - there
*rəšāʿîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wicked ones
*ḥādəlû*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they cease
*rōgez*: noun, masculine singular - turmoil
*wəšām*: conjunction + adverb - and there
*yānûḥû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they rest
*yəgîʿê*: adjective, masculine plural construct - weary ones of
*kōaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - strength

Word Meanings

*rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil ones/unrighteous
*ḥādəlû*: they cease/they stop/they leave off
*rōgez*: turmoil/agitation/rage/trouble
*yānûḥû*: they rest/they are at ease
*yəgîʿê*: weary ones of/exhausted ones of
*kōaḥ*: strength/power/ability

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 17:16 : 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Rev 14:13 : 13 And I heard the voice from heaven saying, {G3427} Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.
Job 14:13 : 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Ps 55:5-8 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. {H5542} 8 I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.
Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
Matt 10:28 : 28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Luke 12:4 : 4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
Heb 4:9 : 9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):

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