Job 3:12 Explained in Context

Verse 11. ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Verse 12. ¹² Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Verse 13. ¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Verse 14. ¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Verse 15. ¹⁵ Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Verse 16. ¹⁶ Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Verse 17. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Verse 18. ¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Verse 19. ¹⁹ The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.