Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Catholic Public Domain 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 great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
21who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And since Hannah was bitter in soul, she prayed to the Lord, weeping greatly.
Job 3:16or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.
Job 7:15so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
Job 33:30so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I depart from the womb, so that I would see hardship and sorrow, and so that my days would be consumed by trouble?”
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 →