Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Darby Translation
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 bondman freed from his master.
21Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept much.
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in 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 →