Job 3:19
The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.
20Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Cross References
Job 21:26[And yet] together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?
Psalms 49:2(49:3) Both the sons of the low and the sons of the high, rich and needy, altogether.
Psalms 49:14(49:15) Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, [taken away] from their own dwelling.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when men will be afraid of every elevation, and are terrified on every way, and the almond-tree will refuse [its blossom], and the locust will drag itself slowly along, and the desire will gainsay compliance; because man goeth to his eternal 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 →