Job 3:18

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Together the prisoners are at ease; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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  • Job 39:7 : 7 It laughs at the commotion of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
  • Isa 14:3-4 : 3 On the day the LORD gives you rest from your pain, your turmoil, and the harsh labor imposed on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the arrogance has ended!
  • Exod 5:6-8 : 6 That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: 7 "You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. 8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.'
  • Exod 5:15-19 : 15 Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?" 16 "No straw is given to your servants, yet we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people." 17 Pharaoh said, "Lazy! That’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.' 18 "Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks." 19 The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, "You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you each day."
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 The Israelites cried out to the LORD for help, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.

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  • 17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • Job 3:19-20
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    19The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his masters.

    20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • 20For he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD observed the earth,

  • Isa 14:3-4
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    3On the day the LORD gives you rest from your pain, your turmoil, and the harsh labor imposed on you,

    4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the arrogance has ended!

  • 7The whole earth is at rest and at peace; they break forth into singing.

  • 15He delivers the afflicted through their suffering and opens their ears in oppression.

  • 9People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.

  • 14The one who is bowed down will soon be set free; he will not die and go down to the pit, nor will he lack bread.

  • 22But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they are loot, with no one to say, 'Restore them.'

  • 8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

  • 20All the days of the wicked man he writhes in pain, and the years allotted to the ruthless are hidden away.

  • 11Let the groans of the prisoners come before You; in accordance with the greatness of Your arm, preserve those condemned to die.

  • 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

  • 13You grant relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

  • Job 3:13-14
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    13For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.

    14With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 1Again I looked and saw all the oppression that is done under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter. Power was on the side of their oppressors, and they had no comforter.

  • 8If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering,

  • Job 34:28-29
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    28He causes the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

    29When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.

  • 18My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in undisturbed resting places.

  • 33This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The people of Israel and the people of Judah are oppressed together. All their captors hold them fast and refuse to let them go.

  • 5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

  • 10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • 12To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

  • 33The humble see it and rejoice; you who seek God, may your hearts live.

  • 18To vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man, who is of the earth, will no longer terrorize.

  • 22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit; they will be shut in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.

  • 17Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?'

  • 16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?

  • 21People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day you have announced, so they may become like me.

  • 5They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.

  • 28Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

  • 3Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

  • 7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out wicked schemes.

  • 16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • 39Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow.

  • 4Let my outcasts live among you, O Moab. Be a shelter for them from the destroyer. For the oppressor will come to an end, destruction will cease, and those who trample others will disappear from the land.

  • 14But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.

  • 122Be surety for Your servant for good; do not let the proud oppress me.

  • 3On the day when those who watch over the house tremble, the strong men stoop, and the women who grind cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim.

  • 9To say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' They will feed along the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.

  • 17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

  • 2They find peace; they rest in their beds—those who walk in uprightness.

  • 24Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

  • 3The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

  • 5Though it has never seen the sun or known anything, it has more rest than that man.

  • 9Their homes are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.