Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Cross References
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
Psalms 49:2both low and high, rich and poor together.
Psalms 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go
Luke 16:22And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the heavenly agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →