Job 3:18
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
BSB
ASV
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
KJV
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
The prisoners rest together - Those who were slaves, feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures of life, are quiet in the grave together; and the voice of the oppressor, the hard, unrelenting task-master, which was more terrible than death, is heard no more. They are free from his exactions, and his mouth is silent in the dust. This may be a reference to the Egyptian bondage. The children of Israel cried by reason of their oppressors or task-masters.
The oppressor - Or, taskmaster, who urges and forces them to work by cruel threatenings and stripes. Job meddles not here with their eternal state after death, of which he speaks hereafter, but only their freedom from worldly troubles, which is the sole matter of his present discourse.
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Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
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The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
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Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
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Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.