Devine Scripture

Job 3:17

Job chapter 3 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

v.17This passage

v.18There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 4:9

    There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

  • 2 Peter 2:8

    (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):

  • Hebrews 4:11

    Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Isaiah 57:1

    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.

  • Job 17:16

    It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • Job 14:13

    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!