Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
death » Sought as a relief from trouble sought » Despair lead men to
If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."
who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
death » Desired » Job
"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.
"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
"{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope, that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}. But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One. read more.
What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?
What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?
"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages. So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}. I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."
who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.