Job 3:19
The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Cross References
Job 21:26Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Psalms 49:2Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
Psalms 49:14Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.
Ecclesiastes 12:5they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
Luke 16:22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
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 →