Job 3:20

לָמָּה יִתֵּן לְעָמֵל אוֹר וְחַיִּים לְמָרֵי נָֽפֶשׁ ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

In The King James Version

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

In Context

19קָטֹן וְגָדוֹל שָׁם הוּא וְעֶבֶד חָפְשִׁי מֵאֲדֹנָֽיו ׃

21הַֽמְחַכִּים לַמָּוֶת וְאֵינֶנּוּ וַֽיַּחְפְּרֻהוּ מִמַּטְמוֹנִֽים ׃

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:10וְהִיא מָרַת נָפֶשׁ וַתִּתְפַּלֵּל עַל ־ יְהוָה וּבָכֹה תִבְכֶּֽה ׃

Job 3:16אוֹ כְנֵפֶל טָמוּן לֹא אֶהְיֶה כְּעֹלְלִים לֹא ־ רָאוּ אֽוֹר ׃

Job 7:15וַתִּבְחַר מַחֲנָק נַפְשִׁי מָוֶת מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי ׃

Job 33:30לְהָשִׁיב נַפְשׁוֹ מִנִּי ־ שָׁחַת לֵאוֹר בְּאוֹר הַֽחַיִּים ׃

Jeremiah 20:18לָמָּה זֶּה מֵרֶחֶם יָצָאתִי לִרְאוֹת עָמָל וְיָגוֹן וַיִּכְלוּ בְּבֹשֶׁת יָמָֽי ׃ פ

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 →

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