Job 3:22
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
Cross References
Job 6:8If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Job 7:15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 21:33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which 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 →