Job 3:19
The small and the great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
20Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
Cross References
Job 21:26Alike they lie down in the dust, And the worms cover them.
Psalms 49:2Both high and low, rich and poor alike!
Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are cast into the underworld; Death shall feed upon them; And the upright shall soon trample upon them. Their form shall be consumed in the underworld, And they shall no more have a dwelling-place.
Ecclesiastes 12:5when also they are afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the locust is a burden, and the caper-berry is powerless; since man goeth to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;—
Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. 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 →