Job 7:15-16, Ecc 7:1, Jon 4:8, 1Cor 9:15 | ESV | STEP | so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones .

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Job 7:15-16

15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my ^abones.
16 I ^bloathe my life; I would not live forever.
^cLeave me alone, for my days are ^da breath.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly

1 ^eA good name is better than precious ointment,
and ^fthe day of death than the day of birth.

Jonah 4:8

8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching ^geast wind, ^hand the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he ⁱwas faint. And he asked that he might die and said, ^j“It is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Corinthians 9:15

15 But ^kI have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone ^ldeprive me of my ground for boasting.