Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Bible in Basic English
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.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.
Job 3:16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Job 7:15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 33:30Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted 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 →