Job Chapter 3 verse 17 Holy Bible
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
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There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
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There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - There. The word has no expressed antecedent, but the general tenor of the passage supplies one. "There" is equivalent to "in the grave." The wicked cease from troubling; i.e." cease from their state of continual perturbation and unrest" (comp. Isaiah 57:20, "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt "). This is their condition, so long as they live; nothing satisfies them; they are always in trouble themselves, and always causing trouble to others. In the grave alone do they rest, or seem to rest. And there the weary be at rest; literally, the weary in strength or "in respect of strength;" i.e. those whose strength is utterly exhausted and worn out. Here Job undoubtedly alludes to himself. He looks to the grave as his only refuge, the only hope he has of recovering peace and tranquillity.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) There--i.e., in the grave, the place indicated, but not distinctly expressed.
