“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me until Your wrath has passed! Oh that You would set a time for me and then remember me!
Job 3:17 - Tree of Life Version There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are 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 You would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me until Your wrath has passed! Oh that You would set a time for me and then remember me!
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we descend together into the dust?”
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like infants who never saw light?
Prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
So I considered the dead, who are already dead, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.
Their love, their hatred, and their zeal have already perished; never again will they have a share in anything that is done under the sun.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
“I say to you, My friends, you should not be afraid of those who kill the body, since after this they have nothing more they can do.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.
(For that righteous man, while living among them, was tormented in his righteous soul day after day by lawless deeds he saw and heard.)
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: How fortunate are the dead—those who die in the Lord from now on!” “Yes,” says the Ruach, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”
Moreover, Adonai will also give the Israelites who are with you into the hand of the Philistines. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me! Yes, Adonai will give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.”