Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for. ⁹ “Would that God were willing to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
¹⁰ Then I would still have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.

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Job

1 Kings 19:4

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to take care of all these people by myself. This is too much work for me!

Job 3:20-22

Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?

Job 7:15-16

I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.

Job 14:13

If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.

Isaiah 48:10-13

I have been testing you for myself like silver. I have put you through the fire of trouble.

Jonah 4:3

Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!

Revelation 9:6

Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.