The Meaning of Job 3:17 Explained

Job 3:17

KJV: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

YLT: There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

Darby: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

ASV: There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 3:17?

MEANING: What does Job 3:17 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 3:17 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 3:17?

What is the context of Job 3:17?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

What does Job 3:17 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 3:1-26 - Is Life Worth Living?

In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered round Job's mound, reverently make way for them.

Job opens his mouth in a curse. But it was not, as Satan had expected, against God. The Hebrew word is different from that used in Job 2:9. He does not curse God, but the day of his birth, and asks that his stripped and suffering existence may be brought to as speedy an end as possible. Job's words are very profitable for all whose way is hid. Is the joy of life fled? Yet its duties remain. Continue in these and the path will lead back to light.

This opening elegy consists of two parts: the first, Job 3:1-10, calls on darkness to blot out the day which witnessed the beginning of so sad a life; the second, Job 3:11-26, inquires why, if he were doomed to be born, the luxury of instant death had not been also granted. Oh, human heart, of what sore anguish art thou not capable! [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 3

¹ Job curses the day and services of his birth
¹³ The ease of death
²⁰ He complains of life, because of his anguish

What do the individual words in Job 3:17 mean?

There the wicked cease [from] troubling and there are at rest the weary the weary

שָׁ֣ם רְ֭שָׁעִים חָ֣דְלוּ רֹ֑גֶז וְשָׁ֥ם יָ֝נ֗וּחוּ יְגִ֣יעֵי כֹֽחַ

רְ֭שָׁעִים	the wicked
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural Root: רָשָׁע Sense: wicked, criminal.
חָ֣דְלוּ	cease
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural Root: חָדַל Sense: to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear.
רֹ֑גֶז	[from] troubling
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: רֹגֶז Sense: agitation, excitement, raging, trouble, turmoil, trembling.
וְשָׁ֥ם	and there
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb Root: שָׁם Sense: there, thither.
יָ֝נ֗וּחוּ	are at rest
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: נוּחַ Sense: to rest.
יְגִ֣יעֵי	the weary
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural construct Root: יָגִיעַ Sense: weary, tired.
כֹֽחַ	the weary
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: כֹּחַ Sense: strength, power, might.

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