Job 3:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 Or why was I not buried away like a stillborn child,
like babies that have never seen the light?
17 There[a] the wicked cease from troubling,
there the weary are at rest.
18 The captives are at ease together,
and hear no overseer’s voice.
Footnotes
- 3:17 There: in death.
Job 3:16-18
New International Version
Job 3:16-18
King James Version
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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