Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
22. rejoice exceedingly ] lit. rejoice even to exultation, Hos 9:1.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Which rejoice exceedingly – Hebrew Who rejoice upon joy or exultation ( ‘el–gyl), 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 mans 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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical 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 “qu laetantur ad choream usque”, Schultens, “quasi ad tripudium”, Michaelis. e Antiqu. l. 13. c. 8. sect. 4. Ed. Hudson.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
22. Rejoice exceedingly Literally, unto exultation, so as to leap for joy. The same figure occurs in Hos 9:1. As is so frequently the case in Job, this verse furnishes a climax: 1) rejoice; 2) to exultation; 3) bound for joy.
Are glad , according to both Gesenius and Furst, embodies the figure of a horse ( ) in his joyous gambols. (Compare Job 39:21, where The same word occurs.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
Ver. 22. Which rejoice exceedingly ] Joy till they skip again, so Broughton rendereth it. Strange that any should be so glad of death, that last enemy, that slaughterman of nature, and harbinger of hell to the ungodly; but this the devil hideth from them till he hath them where he would have, and whence there is no redemption. What was it else that moved Augustus at his death to call for a round of applause or that made Julian the apostate to die so confidently; and many today that have little reason for it to be so prodigal of their lives, and seemingly fond of death? Is it not because they are fearfully blinded by the god of this present world, 2Co 4:4 , who holdeth his black hand before their eyes, lest they should see the evil consequents of death, and be saved? which because they do not, what do they else but rejoice exceedingly (or with exultation, as the word here signifieth) in their woeful bondage, and go dancing to hell in their bolts, not so much as desiring deliverance. A man that is to be hanged next day may dream overnight he shall be set free, nay, that he shall be a king, and rejoice therein accordingly; but the end of such joy is heaviness.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
grave = sepulchre. Hebrew. keber. See App-35.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Job 6:10 – Then
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 3:22. Which rejoice exceedingly, when they can find the grave To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the Giver of life, and shows a sinful indulgence of our own passion. Let it be our great and constant care to get ready for another world: and then let us leave it to God to order the circumstances of our removal thither.