King James Bible
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

American Standard Version
There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Young's Literal Translation
Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,

Job 3:18 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

The prisoners rest together - Those who were slaves, feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures of life, are quiet in the grave together; and the voice of the oppressor, the hard, unrelenting task-master, which was more terrible than death, is heard no more. They are free from his exactions, and his mouth is silent in the dust. This may be a reference to the Egyptian bondage. The children of Israel cried by reason of their oppressors or task-masters.

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Job 39:7 He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.

Exodus 5:6-8,15-19 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying...

Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron...

Isaiah 14:3,4 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear...

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