Job 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

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  • Job 17:16 : 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
  • Job 14:13 : 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Ps 55:5-8 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. 6 I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. 7 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah. 8 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Luke 12:4 : 4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
  • 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

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    18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

    19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

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

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  • Ps 94:13
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    13that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

  • Isa 14:7
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    7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

  • Isa 14:3-4
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    3It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

    4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

  • Ps 37:7-8
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    7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

    8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

  • Isa 57:2
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    2He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

  • Isa 57:20-21
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    20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

    21"There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

  • Job 3:26
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    26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

  • Heb 4:9-10
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    9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

    10For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

  • Isa 32:17-18
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    17The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

    18My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

  • Ps 37:10-11
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    10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

    11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

  • Isa 28:12
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    12to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.

  • Job 15:20
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    20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

  • Job 3:16
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    16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Job 17:16
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    16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • Ps 125:3
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    3For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Job 7:13
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    13When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

  • Job 10:20
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    20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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    7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

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    14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 29:17
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    17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Job 34:29
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    29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

  • Heb 3:11
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    11as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

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    22"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

  • Ps 37:38
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    38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

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    5and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

  • Prov 14:32
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    32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

  • Eccl 6:5
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    5Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

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    1Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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    19Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

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    15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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    3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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    17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

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    7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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    30Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

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    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.