Job 3:20

Job Wishes He Might Die

¹⁹ Both small and great are there,
and the slave is set free from his master. ²⁰ Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,
²¹ who wait for death, but it does not come,
and search for it more than for hidden treasure,

Job

Job 7:15-16

so that I prefer strangling—
death rather than life in this body.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?

1 Samuel 1:10

Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears.

Proverbs 31:6

Give beer to one who is dying
and wine to one whose life is bitter.

2 Kings 4:27

When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone—she is in severe anguish, and the Lord has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,
like infants who never see daylight?

Job 6:9

that He would decide to crush me,
to unleash His power and cut me off!

Job 33:28

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,
and I will continue to see the light.”

Job 33:30

in order to turn him back from the Pit,
so he may shine with the light of life.