Job 3:20

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Summary

Job 3:20

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

Wherefore

Job 6:9

Job 7:15

Jeremiah 20:18

Light

Job 3:16

Job 33:28

The bitter

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Bible References

Wherefore

“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Why did I come out of the womb
To see trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been filled with shame?

Light

“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.

‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],
And my life shall see the light.’”

The bitter

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Hannah was greatly distressed, and she prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.

When she came to the mountain to the man of God, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi approached to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is desperate and troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden the reason from me and has not told me.”

Give strong drink [as medicine] to him who is ready to pass away,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

General references

So I congratulated and thought more fortunate are those who are already dead than the living who are still living.