John Trapp on Job 3:21

Verſe 21. Which long for death, and it cometh not] The bitter in ſoul long for death, thoſe that are in paine or penury, are apt to deſire to be diſpatch'd upon any terms, and would freely pardon them, they ſay, that would give them their paſport. But theſe for moſt part, conſider not the unſupportableneſſe of the wrath to come, that eternity of extremity in hell, that death uſually haleth at the heeles of it; ſo that by death, whereof they are ſo deſirous, they would but leap out of the frying-pan into the fire, as Judas did: they do as the aſſe in the fable, who deſired to die, that he might be no more beaten: at poſt mortem factus eſt tympanum, but when he was dead, he was made a drum-head of, and ſo was ten times more laid on, then ever in his life-time before.

And dig for it more then for hid treaſures] Covetouſneſſe is [non-Latin text not transcribed], alldaring, ſaith an Ancient: and men for love of wealth, will dig to hell, light a candle at the divel, as they ſay: With ſuch an eagerneſſe of deſire do ſome (that have little reaſon for it, all things reckoned) long and labour after death, not to bee rid of ſin, or to bee with Chriſt, as Phil. 1.23. but to bee freed from miſery incumbent or impendent. Thus Cato (having firſt read Plato's book of the ſouls immortality) laid violent hands on himſelfe, that hee might not fall into the hands of the conqueror. Thus Adrian the Emperour having lain long ſick (and could get no help by Phyſicians, but was the worſe for them, [non-Latin text not transcribed] as he complained at his death) would gladly have ſlaine himſelfe, if thoſe about him would have ſuffered it. It is ſaid that Severianus. whom this Emperour injuriouſly put to death, wiſhed of God, at Adrianus, quamvis mortem obire percupiat, tamen non poſſit, that Adrian might deſire to die, and not be able, or find opportunity. There is an Epiſtle of his extant, ſaith the Hiſtorian, wherein is ſet forth, what a miſery it is to deſire to die,Dio Caſſ. in Adrian. and yet to be denied it. This was the caſe of thoſe Popelings, Rev. 9.6. And in particular of Roger Biſhop of Salisbury in King Stevens time; who, through long and ſtrait impriſonment, was brought to that evil paſſe, [illegible: 1 letter]t vivere notuerit, mori neſcierit, live he would not, and yet die he could not. This is a very typicall-hell, and a fore-taſte of eternall torment.