Job 3:22
Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
23To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Cross References
Job 6:8Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
Job 21:33Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed,—and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.
Ecclesiastes 4:3and, as better than both, him who had not yet come into being,—who had not seen the vexatious work, which was 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 →