Job 3:18-26

18 Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
19 The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
21 to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.
25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”

Cross References 19

  • 1. Isaiah 51:14
  • 2. S Genesis 15:13
  • 3. Job 39:7
  • 4. Job 9:22; Job 17:16; Job 21:33; Job 24:24; Job 30:23; Ecclesiastes 12:5
  • 5. S 1 Samuel 1:10; Jeremiah 20:18; Ezekiel 27:30-31
  • 6. Revelation 9:6
  • 7. Psalms 119:127; Proverbs 2:4
  • 8. Job 7:16; Ecclesiastes 4:3; Jeremiah 8:3
  • 9. Proverbs 4:19; Isaiah 59:10; Jeremiah 13:16; Jeremiah 23:12
  • 10. Job 6:4; Job 16:13; Job 19:6,8,12; Psalms 88:8; Lamentations 2:4; Lamentations 3:7; Hosea 2:6
  • 11. Psalms 5:1; Psalms 38:9; Isaiah 35:10
  • 12. Job 6:7; Job 33:20; Psalms 107:18
  • 13. Psalms 22:1; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:8
  • 14. 1 Samuel 1:15; Job 30:16; Psalms 6:6; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 42:3,4; Psalms 80:5; Isaiah 53:12; Lamentations 2:12
  • 15. Job 7:9; Job 9:28; Job 30:15; Hosea 13:3
  • 16. S Genesis 42:36
  • 17. Isaiah 48:22; John 14:27
  • 18. Job 7:4,14; Psalms 6:6; Daniel 4:5; Matthew 11:28
  • 19. S ver 17; S Job 10:18; S Job 19:8
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