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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• 9Even that it would please God to destroy 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, and death rather than my life.
 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. (Job 7:15‑16)
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Jer. 20:18• 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:18)
light.
Job 3:16• 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. (Job 3:16)
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Job 33:28,30• 28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
 30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. (Job 33:28,30)
the bitter.
Job 7:15‑16• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. (Job 7:15‑16)
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1 Sam. 1:10• 10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. (1 Sam. 1:10)
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2 Kings 4:27• 27And 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. (2 Kings 4:27)
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Prov. 31:6• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. (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,