Job 3:18

18 et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 3:18 In-Context

16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem
17 ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu et ibi requieverunt fessi robore
18 et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris
19 parvus et magnus ibi sunt et servus liber a domino suo
20 quare data est misero lux et vita his qui in amaritudine animae sunt
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.