Job 3 · Verse 22

Job 3:22

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

Job 3:22, King James Version

Job 3:22 in other translations

BSB	who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
WEB	who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
ASV	Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
YLT	Who are glad--unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
DARBY	Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —
BBE	Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
Webster	Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

What does Job 3:22 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 22 Which rejoice exceedingly - Literally, They rejoice with joy, and exult when they find the grave. There is a various reading here in one of Kennicott's MSS., which gives a different sense. Instead of who rejoice, אלי גיל eley gil, with Joy, it has אלי גל eley gal, who rejoice at the Tomb, and exult when they find the grave.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 3:20-26

Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the midst of life's greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greatest…

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Job 3:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַשְּׂמֵחִ֥יםha.se.me.Chimthe joyful [people]H8056

אֱלֵי\־'e.lei-toH413

גִ֑ילGilrejoicingH1524

יָ֝שִׂ֗ישׂוּya.Si.suthey exultH7797

כִּ֣יkiifH3588

יִמְצְאוּ\־yim.tze.'u-they findH4672

קָֽבֶר\׃Ka.ver[the] graveH6913

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

Job 3:21
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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Job 3:22 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Que se alegran sobremanera, y se gozan, cuando hallan el sepulcro?
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Qui se réjouissent jusqu’aux transports et sont dans l’allégresse, parce qu’ils ont trouvé le sépulcre, –
German Elberfelder 1871	die sich freuen bis zum Jubel, Wonne haben, wenn sie das Grab finden; -
Latin Clementine Vulgate	gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum?