Job 3:19
Small and great [are] the same there. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18Together prisoners have been at ease, || They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Cross References
Job 21:26Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.
Psalms 49:2Both low and high, together rich and needy.
Psalms 49:14They have set themselves as sheep for Sheol, || Death afflicts them, || And the upright rule over them in the morning, || And their form [is] for consumption. Sheol [is] a dwelling for him.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, || And of the low places in the way, || And the almond-tree is despised, || And the grasshopper has become a burden, || And want is increased, || For man is going to his perpetual home, || And the mourners have gone around through the street.
Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers into the bosom of Abraham—and 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 →