Job 3:20
Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Leeser Tanakh
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 with the great is there, and the servant free from his master.
21Who wait for death, which [cometh] not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures;
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10But she had bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept greatly.
Job 3:16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;
Job 7:15So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.
Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, that she may shine in the light of life.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away 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 →