21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)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 quarrelling there is no end of it; the corrupt heart will carry on the humour. Having cursed the day of his birth, here he courts the day of his death. The beginning of this strife and impatience is as the let…
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