Job 3:19
The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Cross References
Job 21:26And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.
Psalms 49:2from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will be scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.
Luke 16:22Then it happened that the beggar died, and he was carried by the Angels into the bosom of Abraham. Now the wealthy man also died, and he was entombed in Hell.
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 →