Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 3:17 - Revised Standard Version There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary be at rest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. American Standard Version (1901) There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. Common English Bible There the wicked rage no more; there the weak rest. Catholic Public Domain Version There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. |
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”
Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;
Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.
(for by what that righteous man saw and heard as he lived among them, he was vexed in his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds),
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
Moreover the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”