Job 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
King James Version
In Context
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Cross References
Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work 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 →