Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ "{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope, ⁹ that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}. ¹⁰ But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

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1 Kings 19:4

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.

Job 3:20-22

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

Job 7:15-16

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

Job 14:13

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

Job 19:21

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

Isaiah 48:10-13

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

Jonah 4:3

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"

Jonah 4:8

{And when the sun rose}, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. {And he asked that he could die} and said, "My death [is] better than my life!"

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.