Job 3:20
Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
21Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10and, she being in bitterness of soul, prayed unto Yahweh, and, wept sore.
Job 3:16Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore was it—That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!
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 →