Job 3:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which longe for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ”

• Job 3:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Which long for death - Whose pain and anguish are so great that they would regard it as a privilege to die. Much as people dread death, and much as they have occasion to dread what is beyond, yet...

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• Job 3:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness...

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• Job 3:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  long . wait, or look for.

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• Job 3:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which long for death - They look to it as the end of all their miseries; and long more for a separation from lif...

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• Job 3:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Which long for death— Who call aloud for death. Heath.

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• Job 3:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Job 3:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job Curses his Day Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of...

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• Job 3:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1-26 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which ha...

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• Job 3:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Is Life Worth Living? Job 3:1-26 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2 ; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators,...

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• Job 3:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better...

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• Job 3:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) В¶ 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 rejoi...

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• Job 3:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Which long for death, but it [cometh] not ,.... Who earnestly desire, wistly look out, wish for, and expect it, and with open mouth gape for it, as a hungry man for his food, or as the fish for the...

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• Job 3:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Ver. 21. Which long for death, but it cometh not ] The bitter in soul long for death, those that are in pain...

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• Job 3:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Who long for death With eagerness and impatience, as the Hebrew means. Who calls aloud for death , as Heath translates it. Qui ægre expectant, inhiant morti , who anxiously long and gasp for deat...

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• Job 3:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress...

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• Job 3:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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 Whic...

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• Job 3:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Desire and pray for it with as much earnestness as men dig for treasure. But it is observable that Job durst not lay violent hands upon himself, nor do any thing to hasten or procure his death;...

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• Job 3:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 3:5 . “ Let the blackness of the day terrify it .” Margin, “ Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day ” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם ( chimrire-yom ) gives rise to two class...

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• Job 3:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spake in poetic effusions of verse. They say the sam...

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• Job 3:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day. The peril of impulsive speech In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve...

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• Job 3:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech w...

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• Job 3:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Longs for Death

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• Job 3:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 19:4 ; Jonah 4:3 ; Jonah 4:8 ; Numbers 11:15 ; Proverbs 2:4 ; Revelation 9:6

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• Job 3:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off...

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• Job 3:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Dig — Desire with as much earnestness as men dig for treasure: but it is observable, Job durst not do anything to hasten or procure his death: notwithstanding all his miseries, he was contented to...

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