Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Gill's Exposition
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 bait,…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on…
Why does God continue life to the wretched, who long for death?
The vision of the peacefulness of death passes away, and Job awakens again to the consciousness of his real condition, and his words,…
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