Job 3:19
Both small and great people are there; 1 the servant is free from his master there. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 are at ease together; 1 they do not hear the voice of the slave driver. 1
20Why is light given to him who is in misery? 1 Why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul, 1
Cross References
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust; 1 the worms cover them both. 1
Psalms 49:2both low and high, 1 rich and poor together. 1
Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol, 1 and death will be their shepherd. 1 The upright will rule over them in the morning, 1 and their bodies will be consumed in Sheol, 1 with no place for them to live. 1
Ecclesiastes 12:5That will be the time when men become afraid of heights 2 and of dangers along on the road, 1 and when the almond tree blossoms, 2 and when grasshoppers drag themselves along, 2 and when natural desires fail. 1 Then man goes to his eternal home 2 and the mourners go down the streets. 1
Luke 16:22It came about that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. 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 →