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Job 3:17

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3:17There58 the wicked59 cease60 from turmoil,61

and there the weary62 are at rest.

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Footnotes

  1. 58 The reference seems to be death, or Sheol, the place where the infant who is stillborn is either buried (the grave) or resides (the place of departed spirits) and thus does not see the light of the sun.
  2. 59 The wicked are the ungodly, those who are not members of the covenant (normally) and in this context especially those who oppress and torment other people.
  3. 60 The parallelism uses the perfect verb in the first parallel part, and the imperfect opposite it in the second. Since the verse projects to the grave or Sheol (“there”) where the action is perceived as still continuing or just taking place, both receive an English present tense translation ( §106.l).
  4. 61 Here the noun רֹגז (rogez) refers to the agitation of living as opposed to the peaceful rest of dying. The associated verb רָגַז (ragaz) means “to be agitated, excited.” The expression indicates that they cease from troubling, meaning all the agitation of their own lives.
  5. 62 The word יָגִיעַ (yagia’) means “exhausted, wearied”; it is clarified as a physical exhaustion by the genitive of specification (“with regard to their strength”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There the wicked cease from turmoil,

and there the weary are at rest.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

There the wicked cease to make trouble,

and there the weary find rest.

NLTNew Living Translation

For in death the wicked cause no trouble,

and the weary are at rest.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest;

KJV 1900King James Version

There the wicked cease from troubling;

And there the weary be at rest.