Job 3:17

Job Wishes He Had Died

¹⁶ “Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.
¹⁷ “There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.
¹⁸ “The prisoners are at ease together;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

Job

Job 17:16

“Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

Job 14:13

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Psalm 55:5-8

Fear and trembling come upon me,
And horror has overwhelmed me.

Isaiah 57:1-2

The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Luke 12:4

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-7

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Hebrews 4:9

So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:11

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

2 Peter 2:8

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”