Job 3:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Job 3:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Job 14:13
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Isaiah 57:1-2
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. …
Hebrews 4:11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Astronomy Dead (people)Death Despair Despondency Discouragement Dying

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-19)

Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses. When our Saviour would set forth a very calamitous state of things he seems to allow such a saying as this, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. the wicked--the original meaning, “those ever restless,” “full of desires” (Is 57:20, 21). the weary--literally, “those whose strength is wearied out” (Re 14:13).