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Job 3:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

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If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes:

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.




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