 | James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...itself is appointed as a house for his grave." There1 " the prisoners rest together," saith Job, " they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there : and the servant free from his master." Again, into a made grave a man may enter in alive and... | |
 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...is your strength' (Neh. viii. 10). 'There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor' (Job. iii. 17, 18). ' But He knoweth the way that I take : when He hath tried me, I shall come forth... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...accurfed day i Yet let the facrifice at leaft be paid, An honour to the living, not the dead ! VERSE XVIU. THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER, THEY HEAR NOT THE VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR. " THE account given us of the treatment of the chriftian fljves in Mequinez, is a *' lively comment on this... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...order, and where the light is as darkness. There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they...the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there ; and the servant is free from his master. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...elegant expressions of Job, the wicked cease jrcm troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. Ther* the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from hrs ^< > ... • master. J± is very remarkable,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...20. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. ' Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 'Ps. Ixxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me into glory.Ps.Ixxxiv.il.... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...which never saw light. 1 7 There the wjcknd cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. . 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1§ The small and great are there ; and the servant e's free from his master. . 20 Wherefore is light... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 486 pages
...may justly be said, that there only, on this side of the .grave, the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. 'There, the prisoners rest together ; they hear no more the voice of E e 4 tk 424 On Prayer. SERMON fke oppressor. The small and the great are XIX-... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...sickness of the heart which arises from hope deferred. In the grave "the wick" ed cease from troubling and the weary are "at rest : There the prisoners rest...together ; " they hear not the voice of the oppressor, and "the servant is free from his master." Fourthly : It is gain for the Christian to die, because,... | |
 | John Jortin - Theology, Doctrinal - 1809 - 268 pages
...condition comparatively not undesirable h : " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." IT would make one smile to see poetical divines wonderfully tender and candid in their judgments of... | |
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. 
