Job 3:17

Easy To Read Version

Bad people stop making trouble\par when they are in the grave.\par And people who are tired\par find rest in the grave.\par

Cross References

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in my grave.\par I wish you would hide me there,\par until your anger is gone.\par Then you could pick a time\par to remember me.\par

Job 17:16

\{Will my hope die with me?\}\par Will it also go down to the place of death?\par Will we go down into the dirt together?”\par

Job 3:16

Why wasn’t I a child who died at birth\par and was buried in the ground?\par I wish I were like a baby\par that never saw the light of day.\par

Job 3:18

Even prisoners find relief in the grave;\par they don’t hear their guards\par yelling at them.\par

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I decided that things are better for people that have died than for people that are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

After a person is dead, his love, hate, and jealousy are all gone. And dead people will never again share in the things that happen on earth.

Matthew 10:28

Don’t be afraid of people. They can only kill the body. They cannot kill the soul. The only one you should fear is the One (God) that can destroy the body and the soul. He can send the body and the soul to hell.

Luke 12:4

Then Jesus said to the people, “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of people. People can kill the body, but after that they can do nothing more to hurt you.

Hebrews 4:11

So let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s rest. We must try hard so that none of us will be lost by following the example of those people who refused to obey God.

Hebrews 4:9

This shows that the seventh-day rest {\cf2\super [33]} for God’s people is still coming.

2 Peter 2:8

(Lot was a good man, but he lived with those evil people every day. Lot’s good heart was hurt by the evil things that he saw and heard.)

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven. The voice said, “Write this: From now on, the dead people who were in the Lord when they died are blessed (happy).”

1 Samuel 28:19

The Lord will let the Philistines defeat you and the army of Israel today. And tomorrow, you and your sons will be here with me!”