KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:21–22
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Job 3:21
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
21Which †long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:
- Heb. wait.
Job 3:22
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
22Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:21
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To break, turn up, or remove earth; to excavate or make an opening in the ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Valuable things laid up; also to store or keep as precious.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
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Job 3:22
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
exceedingly
To a very great, intense, or unusual degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A place of burial; serious, weighty, or sober; as a verb, to carve or engrave.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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Open the full verse study4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
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Open the full verse study4¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study3Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Open the full verse study8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Open the full verse study15And 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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