Job 3:18 Cross References
Job 3:18
18: Even prisoners are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.
Job 39:7
- It hates the noise of the city, and it has no driver to shout at it.
Exodus 5:15
- So the Israelite foremen went to Pharaoh and pleaded with him. "Please don't treat us like this," they begged.
- "We are given no straw, but we are still told to make as many bricks as before. We are beaten for something that isn't our fault! It is the fault of your slave drivers for making such unreasonable demands."
- But Pharaoh replied, "You're just lazy! You obviously don't have enough to do. If you did, you wouldn't be saying, `Let us go, so we can offer sacrifices to the LORD.'
- Now, get back to work! No straw will be given to you, but you must still deliver the regular quota of bricks."
- Since Pharaoh would not let up on his demands, the Israelite foremen could see that they were in serious trouble.
Isaiah 14:3
- In that wonderful day when the LORD gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains,
- you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, "The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
Exodus 5:6
- That same day Pharaoh sent this order to the slave drivers and foremen he had set over the people of Israel:
- "Do not supply the people with any more straw for making bricks. Let them get it themselves!
- But don't reduce their production quotas by a single brick. They obviously don't have enough to do. If they did, they wouldn't be talking about going into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to their God.
Judges 4:3
- Sisera, who had nine hundred iron chariots, ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.