Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
BSB
ASV
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
KJV
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the wicked cease - from “troubling.” In the grave - where kings and princes and infants lie. This verse is often applied to heaven, and the language is such as will express the condition of that blessed world. But as used by Job it had no such reference. It relates only to the grave. It is language which beautifully expresses the condition of the dead, and the “desirableness” even of an abode in the tomb. They who are there, are free from the vexations and annoyances to which people are exposed in this life.
There the weary are at rest. Heaven is more than a rest to the souls of the saints, but the grave is a rest to their bodies. Their pilgrimage is a weary pilgrimage; sin and the world they are weary of; their services, sufferings, and expectations, they are wearied with; but in the grave they rest from all their labours, Rev. xiv.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors,…
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Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him…
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
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Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
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Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.