Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,.... That labours under various calamities and afflictions, as Job did, being stripped of his substance, deprived of his children, and now in great…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery? - The word “light” here is used undoubtedly to denote “life.” This verse commences a new part of Job’s complaint. It is that God keeps people alive…
Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on…
Why does God continue life to the wretched, who long for death?
The vision of the peacefulness of death passes away, and Job awakens again to the consciousness of his real condition, and his words,…
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