There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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Gill's Exposition
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;…
Barnes' Notes
There the prisoners rest together - Herder translates this, “There the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.” The Septuagint strangely enough, “There they of old (ὁ αἰώνιοι hoi aiōnioi) assembled…
Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he…
Cambridge Bible
the prisoners rest together The "prisoners" are not those immured in prison, but captives driven to forced labour.
the oppressor The taskmaster, Exo 3:7. The prisoners are there all together, and they…
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