6 Bible Verses about Wanting To Die

And Jezebel will send a messenger to Elijah, saying, Thus will God do and thus will he add that according to the time to-morrow I will set thy soul as the soul of one of them. And he will see and arise, and go for his soul, and he will come to the Well of the Oath which was to Judah, and he will leave his boy there. And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

After this Job opened his mouth, and he will curse his day. Job will answer and say, The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.read more.
That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months. Behold, that night shall be hard; no rejoicing shall be in it They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster. The stars of its twilight shall he dark; it shall wait for light, and none; and it shall not look upon the eyelashes of the dawn., Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes? Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire. Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck? For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me. With kings and counselors of the earth building the wastes for themselves;

Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation? And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off? And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One.read more.
For what my strength that I shall wait and what my end, that I shall prolong my soul?

And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know notread more.
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

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