O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Job 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. More versionsKing 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. |
O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would 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 buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light?
There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
And I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive,
Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one 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 can do nothing more.
Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”
Moreover, the Lord will give Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the Lord will also give the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.”