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Job 3:18
Job 3:18 is verse 18 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
World English Bible
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
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Job 3:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Exodus 5:6That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
Exodus 5:7“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
Exodus 5:8But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
Exodus 5:15So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Exodus 5:16No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
Exodus 5:17“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
Exodus 5:18Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Exodus 5:19The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
Isaiah 14:3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!