Job 3:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. 16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
  • Jer 20:18 : 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Prov 31:6 : 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
  • 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.
  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Job 33:30 : 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

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