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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 17

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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
King James Version
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
American Standard Version
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
New English Translation
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
World English Bible
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
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[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,