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 you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire 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
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.