Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'
1 Kings 19:4
and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'
Ecclesiastes 7:1
Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
Job 6:8-9
O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Job 7:15-16
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Numbers 11:15
and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
Numbers 20:3
and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!
Job 3:20-21
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!
Jonah 4:8
And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'
1 Corinthians 9:15
And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
Philippians 1:21-25
for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.