Job 3:22
And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
23To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
Cross References
Job 6:8Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
Job 7:15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
Job 21:33He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that 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 →