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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Numbers 11:15
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please 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. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.