KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:21–24
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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?
Job 3:23
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
23 Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, *and whom God hath hedged in?
- Chap. 19.8.
Job 3:24
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
24For my sighing commeth †before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
- Heb. before my meat.
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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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Job 3:23
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A fence, thicket, wall, or protective enclosure; figuratively, a barrier or defense. As a verb, to enclose or obstruct.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Job 3:24
An audible or inward expression of grief, distress, or oppression.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Sent forth; thrown.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · 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.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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Open the full verse study7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Open the full verse study27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
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Open the full verse study6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Open the full verse study14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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Open the full verse study12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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Open the full verse study9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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Open the full verse study8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
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Open the full verse study8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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Open the full verse study6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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Open the full verse study3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
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Open the full verse study5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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Open the full verse study8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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Open the full verse study11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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Open the full verse study20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
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Open the full verse study7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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Open the full verse study19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Open the full verse study8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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Open the full verse study1MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Open the full verse study3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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