Job 3:20
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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.
21That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
Job 7:15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
Job 33:30That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?
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 →