Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Bible References

That it would

Job 3:20
Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,
Job 7:15
so that I prefer strangling
death rather than life in this body.
Job 14:13
If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.
Numbers 11:14
I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.
1 Kings 19:4
but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”
Jonah 4:3
And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

That he would

Job 19:21
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah
Isaiah 48:10
Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

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