Job 3:19
The small and great are there, 1 And the servant that feared his lord. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18And the men of old time have together 1 Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice. 1
Cross References
Job 21:26But they lie down in the earth together, 1 And corruption covers them. 1
Psalms 49:2Out of Zion comes the excellence of his beauty. 1
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; 1 And pay thy vows to the Most High. 1
Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, 1 And the almond tree shall blossom, 1 And the locust shall increase, 1 And the caper shall be scattered: 1 Because man has gone to his eternal home, 1 And the mourners have gone about the market: 1
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 →