KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:16–17
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Job 3:16
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
16Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
Job 3:17
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
17There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the †wearie be at rest.
- Heb. wearied in strength.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:16
Concealed or kept from sight, discovery, or knowledge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Happening before the usual time.
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The act of being born; origin, offspring, or native rank.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Very young children; babes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Not ever; not at any time; in no case or degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Job 3:17
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Disturbing, agitating, or causing distress; also the stirring or agitation produced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Repose, relief, or cessation from labour; also what remains.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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Open the full verse study3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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Open the full verse study8And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
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Open the full verse study16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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Open the full verse study11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
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Open the full verse study9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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Open the full verse study1THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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Open the full verse study13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Open the full verse study6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
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Open the full verse study4And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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Open the full verse study28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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Open the full verse study5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
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Open the full verse study8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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