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Job 3:17

cease from troubling That is, probably, not from troubling others, but from the unquiet of their own evil. Job 3:17-19 contain the two main ideas, first, that all, evil and good, great and small, are the same in the place of the dead; and second, that this common condition is one of profound rest. Even the wicked there are no more agitated by the turbulence of their passions. Comp. Isaiah 57:20.

the weary lit. the wearied as to strength, the exhausted.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 3:17. _THERE THE WICKED CEASE_] In the grave the oppressors of men cease from irritating, harassing, and distressing their fellow creatures and dependents. _AND THERE THE WEARY BE AT REST....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THERE THE WICKED CEASE - from “troubling.” In the grave - where kings and princes and infants lie. This verse is often applied to heaven, and the language is such as will express the condition of that...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 JOB'S LAMENT _ 1. Job curses the day of his birth (Job 3:1)_ 2. He longs for death (Job 3:10) 3. The reason why (Job 3:24) Job 3:1. The s

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S LAMENTATION. Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we have instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born. T...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WICKED. lawless agitators. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. WEARY. worn out [of strength]....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE WEARY BE AT REST— The Hebrew here כח יגיעי _yegiiai koach_ signifies, _The toils of power;_ and these toils of the great are put in opposition to those of the slave, the meanest condition. The ver...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19) TEXT 3:11-19 11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING; AND THERE THE WEARY BE AT REST._ The wicked - originally meaning those ever restless, full desires (Isaiah 57:20). WEARY - literally, those whose strength is...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:17 wearied (e-10) i.e. lit. 'whose strength is worn out.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB CURSES HIS DAY Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of mind...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In this world, some people are important. And other people are not important. But when they die, God will be the judge of everyone. And God will be fair to everyone (Revelation 20:12). Nobody can ent...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE — i.e., in the grave, the place indicated, but not distinctly expressed....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁ֣ם רְ֭שָׁעִים חָ֣דְלוּ רֹ֑גֶז וְ שָׁ֥ם יָ֝

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which had brought...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? Job 3:1 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered r...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    There the wicked (l) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. (l) That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Tumult. In the grave they can no longer disturb the world. (Menochius) --- In strength. Septuagint, "in body." Both heroes and labourers then find rest, (Calmet) if they have lived virtuously. (Haydo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawn...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE BETTER WORLD_ ‘There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.’ Job 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of trut...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Complaint (Response to an insurance company) I am writing in response to your request for additional information regarding my claim. In block #3 of the accident form, I put "trying to do the job...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But the depths of Job's heart were not yet reached, and to do this was the purpose of God, whatever Satan's thoughts may have been. Job did not know himself, and up to this time, with all his piety, h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THERE THE WICKED CEASE [FROM] TROUBLING,.... At death, and in the grave; such who have been like the troubled sea, that cannot rest, have always been either devising or doing mischief while living, in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Ver. 17. _There the wicked cease from troubling_] Here they are restless, as being acted and agitated by the devil, who being...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _There the wicked cease from troubling_ In the grave the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexatious rapines and murders; _and there the weary be at rest_ Those who were her...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    There the wicked cease from troubling, no longer being engaged in raging; AND THERE THE WEARY, those who suffered misery and trouble in this life, BE AT REST, removed from everything that wearied out...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress in...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WEARY BE AT REST: _ Heb._ wearied in strength...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM RAGING": At death the wicked cease their trouble making and turmoil. Job is not saying that at death the wicked are at rest (Luke 16:19ff), but rather death ends their lif...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THERE, i.e. in the grave, which though not expressed, yet is clearly implied in the foregoing verses. THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING; the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from all th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 3:17 wicked H7563 cease H2308 (H8804) troubling H7267 weary H3019 H3581 rest H5117 (H8799) the wicked -

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of truth was dim; the Sun of righteousness had not yet risen above the horizon; Jesus had not yet brou...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job tells his misery and despair. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: «Pity thyself» is the devil's most popular sermon to one who will listen to him, for he delights to embitter the saint b...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 3:1. _After this opened Job his mouth._ The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the _drama,_ and spake in poetic effusions of _verse._ They say the same o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There the wicked cease from troubling._ WICKED MEN TROUBLE THE WORLD True rest and wickedness never meet; rest and the wicked meet but seldom. And it is but half a rest, and it is rest but to half a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day._ THE PERIL OF IMPULSIVE SPEECH In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:13 Job describes death as rest from the toil of life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society. He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of r...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 3:5. “_Let the blackness of the day terrify it_.” Margin, “_Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day_” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם (_chimrire-yom_) gives rise to two classes of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several _dramatis personae_ speak for themselves, the writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech with a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    There — In the grave. The wicked — The great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexations, rapins and murders. Weary — Those who were here molested and tired out with their tyranni...

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