Numbers 11:14-15

14 aI am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. 15If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

1 Kings 19:4

4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. bAnd he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:20-22

20 Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to cthe bitter in soul,
21who dlong for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for ehidden treasures,
22who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?

Job 7:15-16

15so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my fbones.
16I gloathe my life; I would not live forever.
hLeave me alone, for my days are ia breath.

Job 14:13

13Oh that you would jhide me in kSheol,
that you would lconceal me muntil your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Jonah 4:3

3 nTherefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, ofor it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

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

Revelation of John 9:6

6And in those days tpeople will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

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