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Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

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Jeremiah 20:17
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

Job 3:1
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

Jeremiah 19:14
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,

Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Job 3:11
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Jeremiah 15:10
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

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Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

Job 3:21
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

Job 3:22
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

Job 7:15
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

Job 7:16
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

Jonah 4:8
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

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