Job 3:19
Small and great [are] there the same. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
In Context
18Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Cross References
Job 21:26Together — on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
Psalms 49:2Both low and high, together rich and needy.
Psalms 49:14As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form [is] for consumption. Sheol [is] a dwelling for him.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.
Luke 16:22'And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham — and 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 →