6 Bible Verses about Wanting To Die

Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life. And he came to Beersheba, which belongs to 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 he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job answered and said, Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.read more.
Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it. As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning. Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,

O 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 crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that 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 be patient?

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.read more.
And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.