Holy Scripture

Job 3:17

A church father on this verse
“MORAL INTERPRETATION. There the wicked cease from disturbance, and there the weary in strength be at rest. We have already said above, that herein, viz. that the hearts of sinners are possessed with a tumult of desires, they are grievously oppressed by a host of goading thoughts, but in this light, which the 'infants…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV

Source: Septuagint

Original

17There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; There the wearied in body rest.

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In context

15Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, Who filled their houses with silver:

16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.

— Job 3:17 —

18And the men of old time have together Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.

19The small and great are there, And the servant that feared his lord.

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