Job 3:19
The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Bible in Basic English
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 peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Cross References
Job 21:26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
Psalms 49:2\49:1\Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
Psalms 49:14\49:13\This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Ecclesiastes 12:5And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Luke 16:22And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
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 →