Job 3:17

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Job 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

18 The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

19 Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

Psalms 55:5

Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalms 55:6

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

Psalms 55:7

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

Psalms 55:8

I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

Matthew 10:28

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Luke 12:4

I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.

Isaiah 57:2

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

Hebrews 4:9

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”