Job 3:18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 3 connects to 8 cross-references. Job breaks his silence with a lament cursing the day of his birth and the night of his conception. He questions why light is given to those in misery and longs for the peace of Sheol where the weary are …
Other Translations
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Cross References
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish …
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy …
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, …
And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years …
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and …
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the …