Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Bible References

That it would

Job 3:20
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Numbers 11:14
I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."
Revelation 9:6
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

That he would

Job 19:21
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Psalm 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

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