Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly, Yea, exult, when they can find a grave?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21Who long for death, and it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
23Why is light given to a man from whom the way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
Cross References
Job 6:8O that I might have my request, And that God would grant me that which I long for!
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Yea, death, rather than these my bones.
Job 21:33Sweet to him are the sods of the valley: And all men move after him, As multitudes without number before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea, better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work which 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 →