Job 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Wherefore is light given למה יתן, lama jitten; why doth he give, or hath he given, light, namely, the light of life, to him that is in misery, whose life is a scene of sorrow and distress, loaded and pressed with numberless calamities? and life unto the bitter in soul Unto those whose life itself is very bitter and burdensome, whose souls are full of heaviness, being overpowered with the weight of affliction? Why doth he obtrude his favours upon those that abhor them?

Job 3:20

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