Job 3:21
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, || And they seek it above hid treasures.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
In Context
20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
22Who are glad—to joy, || They rejoice when they find a grave.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself has gone a day’s journey into the wilderness, and comes and sits under a certain broom tree, and desires his soul to die, and says, “Enough, now, O YHWH, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.”
Job 6:9That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 11:20And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, || And refuge has perished from them, || And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!”
Ecclesiastes 4:2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
Jonah 4:8And it comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my life.”
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 →