Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery? 1 Why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul, 1
Unlocked Literal 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 people are there; 1 the servant is free from his master there. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10She was deeply distressed; she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly.
Job 3:16Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, 1 like infants that never see the light. 1
Job 7:15so that I would choose strangling 1 and death rather than preserving these bones of mine. 1
Job 33:30to bring his soul back from the pit, 1 so that he may be enlightened with the light of life. 1
Jeremiah 20:18Why is it that I came out from the womb to see troubles and agony, 1 so that my days are filled 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 →