Job 3:20

Job Wishes He Might Die

¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master. ²⁰ “Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
²¹ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job

Job 7:15-16

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

1 Samuel 1:10

She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

2 Kings 4:27

And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."

Job 3:16

Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

Job 6:9

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

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.'

Job 33:30

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.