Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?
Parallel translations
- WEB who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- KJV Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- BSB who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
- NASB Who are filled with jubilation, And rejoice when they find the grave?
- NLT They’re filled with joy when they finally die, and rejoice when they find the grave.
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Quick answer
They would rejoice greatly to find the grave. For the suffering, death feels like glad relief.
Overview
Job pictures the afflicted overjoyed when they at last reach the grave, so weary are they of life's pain. The verse intensifies his portrait of suffering so severe that death is welcomed. Such honesty about despair is met, in the fuller witness of Scripture, by the promise of life beyond death in Christ.
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