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
And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me 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 juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.