Job 3:19
There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
Cross References
Job 21:26They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
Psalms 49:2As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.
Psalms 49:14Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
Luke 16:22And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. 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 →