Job 3:20-26

Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness of his actual state. In Job 3:20 f. Job generalises from his own position, to which he returns in Job 23: he is hedged in like a captive beast. His sighs have become his daily meat (mg. like my meat, cf. Psalms 42:3), and his roarings resemble an overflowing stream. Let me fear a fear, he says, and it comes upon me. It is a terrible picture of misery.