Job 3:20
Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; 1 and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
19Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, 1 and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh; 1
21Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, 1 when they can find the kever? 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was in bitterness of nefesh, and davened unto Hashem, and wept greatly.
Job 3:16There the resha'im cease from troubling; 1 and there the weary are at rest. 1
Job 7:15So that my nefesh chooseth machanak (strangling) 1 and mavet (death) rather than this skeleton. 1
Job 33:30To bring back his nefesh from the shachat (pit), 1 to be enlightened with the Ohr HaChayyim (light of the living). 1
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I forth out of the womb 1 to see amal (trouble, toil) and sorrow, 1 that my days should be consumed with 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 →