Job 3:20
For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, 1 And life to the souls which are in griefs? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 and great are there, 1 And the servant that feared his lord. 1
21Who desire death, and obtain it not, 1 Digging for it as for treasures; 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.
Job 3:16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1
Job 7:15Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; 1 And yet keep my bones from death. 1
Job 33:30And he has delivered my soul from death, 1 That my life may praise him in the light. 1
Jeremiah 20:18Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent 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 →