Job 3:22
Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21Who wait for death, which [cometh] not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures;
23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?
Cross References
Job 6:8Oh that some one would grant the accomplishment of my request; and that God would grant me the fulfillment of my hope!
Job 7:15So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.
Job 21:33Sweet are to him the clods of the valley; and after him succeedeth every man, as those that were before him are without number.
Ecclesiastes 4:3And as happier than both of them, him who hath not yet come into being, who hath not seen the evil-doing 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 →