Job 3:20

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Job 3:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

19 Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

21 who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

22 who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 6:9

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 7:16

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Job 33:28

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Job 33:30

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

1 Samuel 1:10

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

2 Kings 4:27

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.