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Job 3:22

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE

Who would be filled with joy and gladness when they find their grave?

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Job is expressing how desperately he wants to die - he would actually celebrate finding his own grave.

📚 Historical Context

Job has lost everything - his children, wealth, and health - and is sitting in ashes scraping his painful sores with broken pottery. In this chapter, Job curses the day he was born and wishes he had never existed. Ancient people viewed the grave as a place of rest from life's troubles.

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