Job 3:19
The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
Cross References
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.
Psalms 49:2(49-3) Both low and high, rich and poor together.
Psalms 49:14(49-15) Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;
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 →