Job 3:19
The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Cross References
Job 21:26And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
Psalms 49:2Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
Psalms 49:14This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.
Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried 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 →