Job 6:9

that He would decide to crush me,
to unleash His power and cut me off!

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:14-15

I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

Job 3:20-22

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

Job 7:15-16

so that I prefer strangling—
death rather than life in this body.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah

Isaiah 48:10-13

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Jonah 4:3

And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

Revelation 9:6

In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

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