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Job Laments His Birth

Job 3:18

In 11 translations

BSB
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
KJV
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
WEB
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
ASV
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
LSV
Together prisoners have been at ease, || They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
YLT
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
DBY
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
DRC
And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
GNV
The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
JPS
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
LXXE
And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יַ֭חַד אֲסִירִ֣ים שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ לֹ֥א שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ ק֣וֹל נֹגֵֽשׂ׃
LXX-Br
Ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ οἱ αἰώνιοι οὐκ ἤκουσαν φωνὴν φορολόγου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
  • Exodus 5:15–19So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way? No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but…
  • Isaiah 14:3–4On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and…
  • Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
  • Exodus 5:6–8That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen: “You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw. But require of them the…

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