Job 3:22
and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure
23to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
Cross References
Job 6:8Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Job 7:15so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
Job 21:33He has been found acceptable to the banks of the River of Lamentation, and he will draw any man towards him, and there are countless before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3And happier than both of these, I judged him to be, who has not yet been born, and who has not yet seen the evils which are 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 →