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Job 3:22

and joy greatly, when they have found a sepulchre? (and greatly rejoice, when they have found a tomb, or a grave?)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

In Context

21Which abide death, and it cometh not; as men that dig out treasure, (They who wait for death, but it cometh not; like men who dig out treasure,)

23Why is light given to a man, whose way is hid, and God hath (en)compassed him with darknesses? ( Why is light given to a man, whose way forward is hidden, or obscured, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?)

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Cross References

Job 6:8Who giveth, or granteth, that mine asking come to me; and that God give to me that thing, that I abide? (or and that God give me that thing, that I wait for?)

Job 7:15Wherefore my soul chose hanging, and my bones have chosen death.

Job 21:33He was sweet to the stones, either filths, of hell; and he draweth each man after him, and unnumberable men went before him. (The dust of the earth shall be sweet to him or shall lie gently upon him; and he draweth each person after him, like the innumerable people who went before him.)

Ecclesiastes 4:3and I deemed him, that was not born yet, and saw not the evils that be done under the sun, to be more blessed than ever either. (and I judged him, who was not yet born, and saw not the evils that be done under the sun, to be more blessed than either the living or the dead.)

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 →

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