Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Job 6:8-9
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Job 7:15-16
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
Numbers 20:3
And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!
Job 3:20-21
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Jeremiah 20:14-18
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Jonah 4:8
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
Philippians 1:21-25
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.