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.”

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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.”

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Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

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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.”

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.”

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?

Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

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

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


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