Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 3:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at 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. |
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:)
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.