Job 3:22
Who are glad — unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
In Context
21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
Cross References
Job 6:8O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Job 7:15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Job 21:33Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
Ecclesiastes 4:3And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been 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 →