Job 3:20-22 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 20. Wherefore is light given ] Why is life granted to him who is incapable of enjoying it, or of performing its functions?

‏ Job 3:20-22

Verse 20. Wherefore is light given] Why is life granted to him who is incapable of enjoying it, or of performing its functions?

Verse 21. Which long for death] They look to it as the end of all their miseries; and long more for a separation from life, than those who love gold do for a rich mine.

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, eley gil, with JOY, it has eley gal, who rejoice at the TOMB, and exult when they find the grave.