Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
death » Sought as a relief from trouble sought » Despair lead men to
So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Who wait for death, but it does not come,
And dig (search) for death more [diligently] than for hidden treasures,
So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my
And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those who remain of this evil family (nation), who remain in all the places to which I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.
Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.
death » Desired » Job
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!
Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! I even wish that it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! Then would I still have consolation -- "yes, I would leap [for joy] amid unsparing pain [though I shrink from it] -- "that I have not concealed or denied the words of the Holy One! read more.
What strength have I left, that I should wait and hope? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient?
What strength have I left, that I should wait and hope? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient?
Is there not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work, So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
So that I would choose strangling and death rather than these my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath (futility).
Despair » Leads men to desire death
So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Who wait for death, but it does not come,
And dig (search) for death more [diligently] than for hidden treasures,
So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my
And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those who remain of this evil family (nation), who remain in all the places to which I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.
Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.