Job 3:20
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Young's Literal Translation
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 [are] there the same. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:10And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto Jehovah, and weepeth greatly,
Job 3:16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants — they have not seen light.)
Job 7:15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.
Jeremiah 20:18Why [is] this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
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 →