Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:18

18. There the Prisoners rest [together, ] [they hear not the voice of the Oppressor. ]

i. e. One as well as another, they who were kept in the strongest Chains, and closest Prisons, and condemned to the most hard and miserable slavery, rest as well as those who were captives in much better circumstances. Or, in like manner, (as this word oft signifies) as those Oppressours and oppressed do.

Or, Exactour, or Ta[illegible: 1+ letters]kmaster, who urgeth and forceth them by cruel threatnings and stripes to greater diligence in the works to which they are condemned. See Exod. 3. 7. and 5. 6, 10, 13. Iob meddles not here with their eternal State after death or the Sentence and Judgment of God against wicked men, of which he speaks hereafter, but only speaks of their freedom from worldly troubles, which is the only matter of his Complaint, and present Discourse.