Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Bible References
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Numbers 11:15
So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Revelation 9:6
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you seek skillful and godly wisdom as you would silver
And search for her as you would hidden treasures;
If you seek skillful and godly wisdom as you would silver
And search for her as you would hidden treasures;
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I congratulated and thought more fortunate are those who are already dead than the living who are still living.