Job 3:20
For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?
Brenton Septuagint
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 that feared his lord.
21who desire death, and obtain it not, digging for it as for treasures;
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.
Job 3:16or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.
Job 7:15Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.
Job 33:30And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.
Jeremiah 20:18Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent 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 →