Job 3:21

Job Wishes He Might Die

²⁰ “Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
²¹ Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
²² Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

Job

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Numbers 11:15

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not 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 Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”