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 are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.
1 Kings 19:4
And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men will seek death and will not 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 as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.