Job 3:21
Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
In Context
20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
Job 6:9That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
Ecclesiastes 4:2Wherefore I praysed the dead which now are dead, aboue the liuing, which are yet aliue.
Jonah 4:8And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
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 →