Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
New American Standard Bible
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
King James Version
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Holman Bible
they do not hear the voice of their oppressor.
International Standard Version
In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.
American Standard Version
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Amplified
“There the prisoners rest together;
They do not hear the taskmaster’s voice.
Bible in Basic English
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Darby Translation
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Julia Smith Translation
They being bound, rested together; they heard not the voice of the taskmaster.
King James 2000
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[the] prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear [the] oppressor's voice.
Modern King James verseion
the prisoners are at rest together; they hear not the voice of the slave driver.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor.
NET Bible
There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
New Heart English Bible
There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The Emphasized Bible
At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:
Webster
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
World English Bible
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Youngs Literal Translation
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19 The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
Cross References
Job 39:7
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Exodus 5:6-8
And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus 5:15-19
Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do thou deal thus with thy servants?
Judges 4:3
And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
Isaiah 14:3-4
And it shall come to pass in the day that LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service in which thou were made to serve,