Job 3:22

They're so incredibly happy when they reach the grave!

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In The King James Version

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

In Context

21those who are waiting for death that does not come and who are looking for death more desperately than hunting for treasure?

23Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?

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Cross References

Job 6:8Oh, if only I could have what I really want, that God would give me what I most desire—

Job 7:15that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.

Job 21:33Everyone attends their funeral service; a huge procession of people comes to pay their last respects.

Ecclesiastes 4:3But best of all are those who have never existed—they haven't seen the evil things people do to each other here on earth.

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 →

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