Job 3:20
Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
Noyes 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
19The small and the great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
21Who long for death, and it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Cross References
Job 3:16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Yea, death, rather than these my bones.
Job 33:30That he may bring him back from the pit, That he may enjoy the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore came I forth from the womb, to see weariness and sorrow, And that my days might be consumed 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 →