Jonah 4:3
Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name (honor) (renown) (reputation) is better than pleasant ointment and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Job 6:8-9
Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for.
Job 7:15-16
I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.
Numbers 20:3
The people complained to Moses. They said: If only we had died when the other Israelites died in Jehovah's presence!
Job 3:20-21
Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed is the day when I was born. Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
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!
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these rights! Neither have I written these things, that it should be done to me. It would be better for me to die, than that any man should make my reason for boasting void.
Philippians 1:21-25
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.