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Job 3

Job 3:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore is light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
given
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
to him that is in misery
`amel (Hebrew #6001)
toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful
KJV usage: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.
Pronounce: aw-male'
Origin: from 5998
, and life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
unto the bitter
mar (Hebrew #4751)
from 4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
KJV usage: + angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X great, heavy.
Pronounce: mar
Origin: or (feminine) marah {maw-raw'}
in soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Life,
Light,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Wherefore.
Job 6:9• 9And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! (Job 6:9)
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Job 7:15‑16• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
 16I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. (Job 7:15‑16)
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Jer. 20:18• 18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:18)
light.
Job 3:16• 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light. (Job 3:16)
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Job 33:28,30• 28He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.
 30To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. (Job 33:28,30)
the bitter.
Job 7:15‑16• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
 16I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. (Job 7:15‑16)
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1 Sam. 1:10• 10and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept much. (1 Sam. 1:10)
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2 Kings 4:27• 27And she came to the man of God to the mountain, and caught him by the feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her, and Jehovah has hidden it from me, and has not told me. (2 Kings 4:27)
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Prov. 31:6• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul: (Prov. 31:6)
• Having pictured death as a state of dreamless sleep, Job gives vent to his longing for this nirvana. He asks why one so wretched as he should be debarred from the repose he seeks (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,