Job 3:21
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
In Context
20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
22Who are glad — unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.'
Job 6:9That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 11:20And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!
Ecclesiastes 4:2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
Jonah 4:8And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better [is] my death than my life.'
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 →