Job 3:19
The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.
20For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?
Cross References
Job 21:26But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
Psalms 49:2Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.
Ecclesiastes 12:5and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:
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 →