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Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

Jeremiah 19:14
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

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Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Jonah 4:8
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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