Job 3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Notice the sameness of all men in their birth. One and all are equal by nature. All inherit the sin of their first parents. The necessary consequence following from this truth is that there is a need of a "new birth" for everyone that would inherit everlasting life. There is, however, a distinction among men in their lives. There is a vast difference between men, both in spiritual and in temporal things. The inferences are simply these. If we look at men in matters temporal, and receive the truth that God makes one man great and another man small, we learn to be contented in whatsoever position of life God Himself has placed us. We learn that God is willing to make man that which man ought to be, even though He has to work with such wretched materials as we are made of. But whatever men's differences in life, there is nevertheless a similarity in their death. "The small and the great are there." Whether young or old, all must come to this. "He seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish." "Man being in honour, abideth not." (H. M. Villiers, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.WEB: The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. |
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