6 Bible Verses about Wanting To Die

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if by tomorrow at this time I have not made thy person as one of them. And when he saw that, he arose and departed to save his life and came to Beersheba, which is in Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. And Job spoke and said, Let the day perish in which I was born and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.read more.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein! Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day; because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb nor hide the misery from my eyes. Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck? For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest, with the kings and the counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.read more.
What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, yet I do not know what to choose.read more.
For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:

And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.