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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 3:22

Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murmuring;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Heart;   Independency of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Poetry;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sheol;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Strophic Forms in the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
who are filled with much joyand are glad when they reach the grave?
Hebrew Names Version
Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
King James Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
English Standard Version
who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
New Century Version
They are very happy when they get to the grave.
New English Translation
who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
Amplified Bible
Who rejoice exceedingly, And rejoice when they find the grave?
New American Standard Bible
Who are filled with jubilation, And rejoice when they find the grave?
World English Bible
Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
Legacy Standard Bible
Who are glad with joy,And rejoice when they find the grave?
Berean Standard Bible
who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
Contemporary English Version
Nothing could make me happier than to be in the grave.
Complete Jewish Bible
[Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?
Darby Translation
Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave?—
Easy-to-Read Version
They would be happy to find their grave. They would rejoice to find their tomb.
George Lamsa Translation
Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
Good News Translation
They are not happy till they are dead and buried;
Lexham English Bible
who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave?
Literal Translation
They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
they wolde be maruelous glad, as those that dygge vp treasure)
American Standard Version
Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
Bible in Basic English
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave?--
King James Version (1611)
Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and would be very joyful if they should gain it?
English Revised Version
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as men diggynge out tresour and ioien greetly, whanne thei han founde a sepulcre?
Update Bible Version
Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave
Webster's Bible Translation
Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
New King James Version
Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?
New Living Translation
They're filled with joy when they finally die, and rejoice when they find the grave.
New Life Bible
They are filled with much joy and are glad, when they find the grave.
New Revised Standard
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they find the grave?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?
Revised Standard Version
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
Young's Literal Translation
Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?

Contextual Overview

20 Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? - 21 Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures: 22 Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave: 23 To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him? 24 For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans: 25 For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me. 26 I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, - when there came - consternation!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Job 6:10 - Then

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
And God said - Let us make man in our image after our likeness - and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:5
For God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then shall your eyes be opened, - and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:6
And, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes and the tree was pleasant to make one knowing, then took she of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and she gave to her husband also, along with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 3:7
Then were opened the eyes of them both, and they knew that, naked, they were, - so they tacked together fig-leaves, and made for themselves girdles,
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, - The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
Then said Yahweh God to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent, deceived me, so I did eat.
Psalms 22:26
The patient wronged-ones shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Yahweh, who are seekers of him, Let your heart live for aye.
Proverbs 3:18
A tree of life, is she, to them who secure her, - and, they who hold her fast, are every one to be pronounced happy.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitress of Lebanon that makest thy nest in the cedars, - How hast thou bemoaned thyself Now that pangs have overtaken thee, Anguish, as of her that giveth birth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which rejoice exceedingly,.... Or, "which joy till they do skip again", as Mr. Broughton renders it, and to the same purport others d; are so elated as to skip and dance for joy:

[and] are glad when they can find the grave; which is to be understood either of those who dig in the earth for hid treasure, such as is laid there by men; when they strike and hit upon a grave where they expect to find a booty; it being usual in former times to put much riches into the sepulchres of great personages, as Sanctius on the place observes; so Hyrcanus, opening the sepulchre of David, found in it three thousand talents of silver, as Josephus e relates: or rather this is said of the miserable and bitter in soul, who long for death, and seek after it; who, when they perceive any symptoms of its near approach, are exceedingly pleased, and rejoice at it, as when they observe the decays of nature, or any disorder and disease upon them which threaten with death; for this cannot be meant of the dead carrying to the grave, who are insensible of it, and of their being put into it.

d השמחים אלי גיל "qu laetantur ad choream usque", Schultens, "quasi ad tripudium", Michaelis. e Antiqu. l. 13. c. 8. sect. 4. Ed. Hudson.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which rejoice exceedingly - Hebrew “Who rejoice upon joy or exultation” (אל־גיל 'el-gı̂yl), that is, with exceedingly great joy.

When they can find the grave - What an expression! How strikingly does it express the intense desire to die, and the depth of a man’s sorrow, when it becomes a matter of exultation for him to be permitted to lie down in the corruption and decay of the tomb! A somewhat similiar sentiment occurs in Euripides, as quoted by Cicero, Tusc. Quaest. Lib. 1, cap. 48:

Nam nos decebat, doman

Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus,

Humanae vitae varia reputantes mala;

At qui labores morte finisset graves

Hunc omni amicos laude et Lactitia exsequi.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 3:22. 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.


 
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