Job 3:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Who long and wait for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Common English Bible

²¹ those waiting in vain for death, who search for it more than for treasure,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure

Job 3:21 Cross References

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures—

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

Job 3:22

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Jeremiah 8:3

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.

Job 6:8

“O that I might have my request and that God would grant my desire,

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than this body.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive,