Job 3:18

18 Allí también reposaron los cautivos; no oyeron la voz del exactor

Job 3:18 Meaning and Commentary

Job 3:18

[There] the prisoners rest together
"Are at ease", as Mr. Broughton renders the words; such who while they lived were in prison for debt, or were condemned to the galleys, to lead a miserable life; or such who suffered bonds and imprisonment for the sake of religion, at death their chains are knocked off, and they are as much at liberty, and enjoy as much ease, as the dead that never were prisoners; and not only rest together with those who were their fellow prisoners, but with those who never were in prison, yea, with those who cast them into it; for there the prisoners and those that imprisoned them are upon a level, enjoying equal ease and liberty:

they hear not the voice of the oppressor;
or "exactor" ^F24; neither of their creditors that demanded their debt of them, and threatened them with a prison, or that detained them in it; nor of the jail keeper that gave them hard words as well as stripes; nor of cruel taskmasters, who kept them to hard service in prison, and threatened them severely if they did not perform it, like the taskmasters in Egypt, ( Exodus 5:11 Exodus 5:13 ) ; but, in the grave, the blustering, terrifying, voice of such, is not heard.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (vgn) "exactoris", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator

Job 3:18 In-Context

16 O ¿por qué no fui escondido como abortivo, como los pequeñitos que nunca vieron luz

17 Allí los impíos dejaron de molestar, y allí descansaron los de cansadas fuerzas

18 Allí también reposaron los cautivos; no oyeron la voz del exactor

19 Allí está el chico y el grande; allí es el siervo libre de su señor

20 ¿Por qué dio luz al trabajado, y vida a los amargos de ánimo