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 this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
1 Kings 19:4
Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."
Jonah 4:3
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
Revelation 9:6
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I deemed the dead who have already died more [fortunate] than the living who are still alive.