Job 3:22
Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
23Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Cross References
Job 6:8Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 7:15Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
Job 21:33The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
Ecclesiastes 4:3And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.
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 →