Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Cross References
Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
Treasury of Scripture
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
Wherefore.
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15,16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life…
Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
light.
Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job 33:28,30
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light…
the bitter.
Job 7:15,16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life…
1 Samuel 1:10
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
2 Kings 4:27
And 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.
