Job 10:1
I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.
Job 7:11
I will not keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. I must complain in my bitterness.
1 Kings 19:4
Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.
Job 9:21
I am blameless! Yet I do not know myself. And I despise my life.
Job 3:20-23
Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?
Job 5:15-16
He saves people from the sword (slander) of their mouth. He saves the needy from the power of the mighty.
Job 5:20
In famine he will save you from death, and in war he will save you from the sword.
Job 6:2-4
If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
Job 6:8-9
Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for.
Job 6:26
Do you mean to correct what I say? Do you treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
Job 7:16
I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.
Job 10:15-16
If I am wicked, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 14:13
If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!
Job 16:6-16
If I speak, my pain is not lessened. If I hold back how am I eased?
Job 19:4
Even if it were true that I made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.
Job 21:2-4
Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
Psalm 32:3-5
When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.
Isaiah 38:15
There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.
Isaiah 38:17
Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 4:3
Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:8
When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!