Job 3:19
Both small and great are there, and slaves are freed from their masters.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18There prisoners take it easy—they don't hear the commands of their oppressors.
20Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,
Cross References
Job 21:26Yet they are both buried in the same dust; they are treated alike in death, eaten by maggots.
Psalms 49:2whether you are highborn or lowborn, rich or poor!
Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for the grave. Death will be their shepherd. Those who live right will rule over them in the morning. Their bodies will decay in the grave, far from their homes.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Before you develop a fear of heights and worry about going out on the streets; when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper crawls along, and desire fails, for everyone has to go to their eternal home as the mourners go up and down the street.
Luke 16:22Then the beggar died, and angels carried him away to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
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 →