Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Cross References
Job 6:8O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea, better than them both [is] him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:21-26
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.… Read the whole commentary →