If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger passes. If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me.
Job 3:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised There the wicked cease to make trouble, and there the weary find rest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger passes. If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me.
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?
The captives are completely at rest; they do not hear a taskmaster’s voice.
So I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.
Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
‘I say to you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
(for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard ) #– #
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘so they will rest from their labours, since their works follow them.’
The Lord will also hand Israel over to the Philistines along with you. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me, , and the Lord will hand Israel’s army over to the Philistines.’