Devine Scripture

Job 3:20

Job chapter 3 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.19The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.

v.20This passage

v.21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 31:6

    Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

  • Job 3:16

    Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Job 33:30

    To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • Jeremiah 20:18

    Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 7:15

    So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

  • Job 33:28

    He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.