Job 3:20
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
In Context
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept bitterly.
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow, that my days should 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 →