Job 3:20
Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was troubled in her minde, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore:
Job 3:16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
Job 7:15Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
Job 33:30That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.
Jeremiah 20:18How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde 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 →