Job 3:21
Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—
22Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub,—and asked for his life, that he might die, and said—Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.
Job 6:9That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Job 11:20But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail,—and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.
Ecclesiastes 4:2So, I, pronounced happy the dead, who were, already, dead,—more than the living, who were living, still;
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint,—and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.
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 →