Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days 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 →