Job 3:20
Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19Both small and great are there, and slaves are freed from their masters.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10She was terribly upset, and prayed to the Lord as she cried and cried.
Job 3:16Why wasn't I a miscarriage, buried in secret, a baby who never saw the light?
Job 7:15that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
Job 33:30he saves them from the grave so they might see the light of life.
Jeremiah 20:18Why was I born only to see trouble and sadness, and to end my life 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 →