17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
17 Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest.
17 For in death the wicked cause no trouble, and the weary are at rest.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
2 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
2 he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
2 They lived well and with dignity and now they're finally at peace.
2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.
2 For those who follow godly paths will rest in peace when they die.
(Read Isaiah 57:1-2)
The righteous are delivered from the sting of death, not from the stroke of it. The careless world disregards this. Few lament it as a public loss, and very few notice it as a public warning. They are taken away in compassion, that they may not see the evil, nor share in it, nor be tempted by it. The righteous man, when he dies, enters into peace and rest.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 3:17
Commentary on Job 3:11-19
(Read Job 3:11-19)
Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire to die, only that we may be delivered from the troubles of this life, savours of corruption. It is our wisdom and duty to make the best of that which is, be it living or dying; and so to live to the Lord, and die to the Lord, as in both to be his, Romans 14:8. Observe how Job describes the repose of the grave; There the wicked cease from troubling. When persecutors die, they can no longer persecute. There the weary are at rest: in the grave they rest from all their labours. And a rest from sin, temptation, conflict, sorrows, and labours, remains in the presence and enjoyment of God. There believers rest in Jesus, nay, as far as we trust in the Lord Jesus and obey him, we here find rest to our souls, though in the world we have tribulation.