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 how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"
1 Kings 19:4
and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"
Jonah 4:3
Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.
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Proverbs 2:4
if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I commended the dead who had already died as being happier than the living who are still alive.