Jonah 4:8
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8 When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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1 Kings 19:4
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4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”(A)
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Job 7:15
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15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
Job 7:16
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16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)
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