Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
21who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to LORD, and wept much.
Job 3:16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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 →