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 thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
1 Kings 19:4
and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'
Revelation 9:6
and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
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Proverbs 2:4
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.