Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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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 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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.”
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.
Job 6:8
“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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.”
Jonah 4:9
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
Job 14:13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Jeremiah 8:3
Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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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.
Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,
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.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
Job 3:3
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
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Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Job 3:16
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
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Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
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Psalms 56:13
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Job 33:30
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
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Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Philippians 1:24
Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
Philippians 1:25
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
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Job 7:11
“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 9:18
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 21:25
Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
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Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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Job 24:23
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
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John 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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Job 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
John 4:8
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Revelation 6:16
They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
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