Job 3:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

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  • Job 39:7 : 7 He mocks the city's throng, nor does he heed the driver's shout.
  • Isa 14:3-4 : 3 And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, 4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
  • Exod 5:6-8 : 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, 7 You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as before: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And the quota of bricks, which they made before, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish anything from it: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
  • Exod 5:15-19 : 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal this way with your servants? 16 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks: and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people. 17 But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel realized they were in trouble when it was said, You shall not diminish anything from your bricks of your daily task.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

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  • 17There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

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

    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,

  • Isa 14:3-4
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    3And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

    4That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

  • 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

  • 15He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

  • 9Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.

  • 14The captive exile hastens to be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

  • 22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for a prey, and no one delivers; for a plunder, and no one says, 'Restore.'

  • 8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • 20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.

  • 11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;

  • 34To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,

  • 13That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.

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

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

  • 1So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

  • 8And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

  • Job 34:28-29
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    28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

    29When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him? Whether it be done against a nation or against a man only.

  • 18And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

  • 33Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all who took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

  • 5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

  • 10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

  • 12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • 33For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise his prisoners.

  • 18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

  • 22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be visited.

  • 17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?

  • 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • 21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • 5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

  • 28He sits alone and keeps silent, because He has laid it on him.

  • 3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

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

  • 39Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

  • 4Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

  • 14Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.

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

  • 3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • 9That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

  • 17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 2He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

  • 24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 3And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • 5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

  • 9Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.