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Job 3:19
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Both small and great are there,and the slave is set free from his master.
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
"The small and the great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
"The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
The small and the great are there,And the slave is free from his master.
Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
where captives and slaves are free at last.
"So why must light be given to the miserable and life to the bitter in spirit?
The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.
Everyone—from the greatest to the least important—will be there, and even the slave is free from his master.
The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.
The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.
the small and the great, he is there, and the slave free from his master.
There are small and greate: the bonde man, and he that is fre fro his master.
The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
There are small and great, and the seruaunt [is] free from his maister.
The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.
The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
A litil man and greet man be there, and a seruaunt free fro his lord.
The small and the great are there: And the slave is free from his master.
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
The small and great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
Rich and poor are both there, and the slave is free from his master.
The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his owner.
The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.
Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
Small and great [are] there the same. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
"The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The small: Job 30:23, Psalms 49:2, Psalms 49:6-10, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23, Hebrews 9:27
and the servant: Psalms 49:14-20
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:2 - both small and great 2 Chronicles 15:13 - whether small 2 Chronicles 34:30 - great and small Job 21:26 - alike
Cross-References
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.
Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."
Then Abraham said, "Though I am only dust and ashes, I have been brave to speak to the Lord.
"I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife."
He said: "I was naked when I was born, and I will be naked when I die. The Lord gave these things to me, and he has taken them away. Praise the name of the Lord ."
Even after my skin has been destroyed, in my flesh I will see God.
They are buried next to each other, and worms cover them both.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The small and great are there,.... Both as to age, and with respect to bulk and strength of body, and also to estate and dignity; children and men, or those of low and high stature, or in a mean or more exalted state of life, as to riches and honour, these all come to the grave without any difference, and lie there without any distinction y "little and great are there all one"; as Mr. Broughton renders the words, see Revelation 20:12;
and the servant [is] free from his master; death dissolves all relations among men, and takes away the power that one has legally over another, as the husband over the wife, who at death is loosed from the law and power of her husband, Romans 7:2; and so parents over their children, and masters over their servants; there the master and the servant are together, without any superiority of the one to the other: the consideration of all the above things made death and the state of the dead in the grave appear to Job much more preferable than life in his present circumstances; and therefore, since it had not seized on him sooner, and as soon as he before had wished it had, he desires it might not be long before it came upon him, as in Job 3:20.
y "Grandia cum parvis Orcus metit". Horat. Ep. l. 2. ep. 2. ver. 178. "----Mista senum ac juvenum densantur funera". Horat. Carmin. l. 1. Ode. 28.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The small and the great are there - The old and the young, the high and the low. Death levels all. It shows no respect to age; it spares none because they are vigorous, young, or beautiful. This sentiment has probably been expressed in various forms in all languages, for all people are made deeply sensible of its truth. The Classic reader will recall the ancient proverb,
Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat,
And the language of Horace:
Aequae lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.
Omne capax movet urna nomen.
Tristis unda scilicet omnibus,
Quicunque terrae munere vescimur,
Enaviganda, sive reges,
Sive inopes erimus coloni.
Divesne prisco natus ab lnacho
Nil interest, an pauper et infima
De gente sub dio moreris
Victima nil miserantis Orci.
Omnes codem cogimur. Omnium
Versatur urna. Serius, ocyus,
Sors exitura.
- Omnes una manet nox,
Et calcauda semel via leti. (Nullum)
Mista senum acjuvenum densantur funera.
Saeva caput Proserpina lugit. (tabernas)
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum
Regumque turres.
And the servant is free from his master - Slavery is at an end in the grave. The master can no longer tax the powers of the slave, can no longer scourge him or exact his uncompensated toil. Slavery early existed, and there is evidence here that it was known in the time of Job. But Job did not regard it as a desirable institution; for assuredly that is not desirable from which death would be regarded as a “release,” or where death would be preferable. Men often talk about slavery as a valuable condition of society, and sometimes appeal even to the Scriptures to sustain it; but Job felt that “it was worse than death,” and that the grave was to be preferred because there the slave would be free from his master. The word used here and rendered “free” (חפשׁי chophshı̂y) properly expresses manumission from slavery. See it explained at length in my the notes at Isaiah 58:6.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:19. The small and great are there. — All sorts and conditions of men are equally blended in the grave, and ultimately reduced to one common dust; and between the bond and free there is no difference. The grave is
"The appointed place of rendezvous, where all
These travellers meet."
Equality is absolute among the sons of men in their entrance into and exit from the world: all the intermediate state is disparity. All men begin and end life alike; and there is no difference between the king and the cottager.
A contemplation of this should equally humble the great and the small.
The saying is trite, but it is true: -
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas,
Regumque turres.
HOR. Odar. lib. i., Od. iv., ver. 13.
"With equal pace impartial Fate
Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate."
Death is that state,
"Where they an equal honour share
Who buried or unburied are.
Where Agamemnon knows no more
Than Irus he contemn'd before.
Where fair Achilles and Thersites lie,
Equally naked, poor, and dry."
And why do not the living lay these things to heart?
There is a fine saying in Seneca ad Marciam, cap. 20, on this subject, which may serve as a comment on this place: MORS-servitutem invito domino remittit; haec captivorum catenas levat; haec e carcere eduxit, quos exire imperium impotens vetuerat. Haec est in quo nemo humilitatem suam sensit; haec quae nulli paruit; haec quae nihil quicquam alieno fecit arbitrio. Haec, ubi res communes fortuna male divisit, et aequo jure genitos alium alii donavit, exaequat omnia.
"Death, in spite of the master, manumits the slave. It loosens the chains of the prisoners. It brings out of the dungeon those whom impotent authority had forbidden to go at large. This is the state in which none is sensible of his humiliation. Death obeys no man. It does nothing according to the will of another. It reduces, by a just law, to a state of equality, all who in their families and circumstances had unequal lots in life."
