Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.