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Job 3:20

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 Wherefore למה
H5414 given יתן
H6001 to him that is in misery לעמל
H216 is light אור
H2416 and life וחיים
H4751 unto the bitter למרי
H5315 in soul נפשׁ׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 Wherefore
  is
H216 light
H5414 given
  to
  him
  that
  is
  in
H6001 misery
  and
H2416 life
  unto
  the
H4751 bitter
  in
H5315 soul

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H4100
Hebrew: מָה
Transliteration: mâh
Pronunciation: maw
Bible Usage: how ({long} {oft} {[-soever]}) [no-] {thing} what ({end} {good} {purpose} {thing}) whereby ({-fore} {-in} {-to} {-with}) (for) why.
Definition:  

properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses

interr pron

1. what, how, of what kind

a. (interrogative)

1. what?

2. of what kind

3. what? (rhetorical)

4. whatsoever, whatever, what

b. (adverb)

1. how, how now

2. why

3. how! (exclamation)

c. (with prep)

1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?

2. because of what?

3. the like of what? 1c

d. how much?, how many?, how often? 1c

e. for how long?

1. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?

2. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron

2. anything, aught, what may

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.