Job 3:18 meaning and explanation

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Job 3:18, Berean Standard Bible

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Job has just lost his children, wealth and health, and here he speaks his first long lament, cursing the day he was born and longing for the grave. In verses 17 to 19 he pictures death as a place where the powerful stop raging and the exhausted rest.

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