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
Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."
1 Kings 19:4
And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."
Jonah 4:3
Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than 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 fly from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.