Numbers 11:15

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:3

And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Exodus 32:32

Now if You would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book You have written.”

Job 3:20-22

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

Job 6:8-10

If only my request would be granted
and God would provide what I hope for:

Job 7:15

so that I prefer strangling—
death rather than life in this body.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?

Jonah 4:8-9

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has removed your punishment;
He has turned back your enemy.
The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you;
you need no longer fear harm.

Philippians 1:20-24

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

James 1:4

But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

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Summary

Numbers 11:15

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Kill me

James 1:4

Let me not

Jeremiah 15:18

Jeremiah 20:18

Zephaniah 3:15

General references

Deuteronomy 1:12

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