Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21Who 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 will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yes, better is he than both they, who 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 →