6 Bible Verses about Wanting To Die

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth 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 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 mail 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 shades of death stain 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 to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth? Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counselors 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 I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.read more.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

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

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether 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 labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.read more.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

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