Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
World English Bible Classic
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. The servant is free from his master.
21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.
Job 3:16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, 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 →