Kommentar zu Ijow 3:21

Who await death to those of bitter spirit, who long for and desire death and complain, saying, “it is not here.”

Malbim pictures the irony of the desperate and destitute man, who spends his entire life longing for the release of death, and who, upon discovering buried treasure in his old age, is buried alive when the walls of the pit in which he found the treasure cave in on him. Such is the caprice of destiny.

and they spy after it Heb. ויתפרהו, and they spy after it.

more than after hidden treasures More than people spy after hidden treasures.