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.
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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.
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Jonah 4:1
But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2
And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
Jonah 1:3
And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
Exodus 4:14
And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.
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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 4:8
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.
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.
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;
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!
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.
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?
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.
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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Jonah 4:4
And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
Jonah 4:5
Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.
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.
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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?
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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;
John 17:15
My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
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Job 6:10
So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.
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