Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
World English Bible Catholic
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. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Cross References
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
Psalms 49:2both low and high, rich and poor together.
Psalms 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets;
Luke 16:22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. 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 →