Gen 17:18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
Gen 23:13 And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
Gen 30:34 Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”
Gen 50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.”
Num 14:2 And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Num 20:3 And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
Num 22:29 And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”
Deu 32:29 If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern their latter end!
they would discern their latter end!
Jos 7:7 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
Judg 8:19 And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
Judg 13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”
1Sa 14:30 How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”
2Sa 18:12 But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’
2Sa 19:6 because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
Job 6:2 “Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 16:4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
Psa 81:13 Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
that Israel would walk in my ways!
Isa 48:18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
Isa 64:1 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
Eze 14:15 “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,
Mic 2:11 If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,
saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
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