Job 3:18 Cross References - CLV

¹⁸ Prisoners are tranquil together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

⁶ Hence Pharaoh instructed on that day the exactors among the people and their superintendents, saying. ⁷ You shall not continue to give crushed straw to the people to mold the bricks as heretofore. They shall go and rake together crushed straw for themselves. ⁸ You shall place on them the regular number of bricks which they were making heretofore. You shall not diminish from it, for they are slackers. Therefore they are crying, saying: Let us go; let us sacrifice to our Elohim.

¹⁵ Then the superintendents of the sons of Israel entered and cried to Pharaoh, saying: Why are you doing thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Crushed straw is not being given to your servants. And of bricks, they are saying to us, Make them. And behold, your servants are being smitten, and your people are at fault. ¹⁷ Yet he said: You are slackers--slackers! Therefore you are saying, Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh. ¹⁸ Yet now go, serve! But crushed straw shall not be given to you, though the regular number of bricks shall you provide. ¹⁹ Hence the superintendents of the sons of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, having to say: You shall not subtract from your bricks a day's tally in its day.

³ and the sons of Israel cry unto Yahweh, for he has nine hundred chariots of iron, and he has oppressed the sons of Israel mightily twenty years.

⁷ He makes sport of the clamor of the town; He does not hear the tumults of the taskmaster.

³ And this comes to be in the day Yahweh gives you rest from your grief, and from your disturbance, and from the hard service in which you served." ⁴ And you lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say in that day, "How ceases the exactor! Ceases the audacious city!"