Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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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;
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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;
Job 3:23
To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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.
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.
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.
Job 6:8
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Job 6:9
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
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.
Jonah 4:9
And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
Job 14:13
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
Jeremiah 8:3
And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.
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Jeremiah 20:14
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Jeremiah 20:15
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16
May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
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.
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?
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?
Job 3:12
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Job 3:1
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
Job 3:3
Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
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Job 10:1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Job 6:11
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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Job 3:16
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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Job 3:17
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Job 3:19
The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
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Psalms 56:13
Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
Job 33:28
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Job 33:30
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
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Philippians 1:21
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Philippians 1:24
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
Philippians 1:25
And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
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Job 7:11
So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Job 9:18
He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
Job 21:25
And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
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Job 13:26
For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;
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Job 24:23
He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
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John 1:4
What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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Job 3:24
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
John 4:8
For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.
Revelation 6:16
And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
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