Job 7:16
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Job 10:1
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Job Continues: A Plea to God
10 “I (A)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my (B)complaint;
I will speak in (C)the bitterness of my soul.
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 broom tree. (A)And 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.”
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Jonah 4:8
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8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching (A)east wind, (B)and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he (C)was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, (D)“It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Psalm 39:13
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Job 14:6
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- Job 14:6 Probable reading; Hebrew look away from him, that he may cease
Job 10:20
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Job 9:21
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Job 6:9
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9 that it would (A)please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Jonah 4:3
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3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, (B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Ecclesiastes 6:11-12
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11 The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man? 12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain[a] life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?
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- Ecclesiastes 6:12 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 78:33
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- Psalm 78:33 Hebrew in
- Psalm 78:33 Or vapor
Psalm 62:9
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9 (A)Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate (B)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
(C)they are together lighter than a breath.
Psalm 39:10
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10 (A)Remove your stroke from me;
I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
Job 3:20-22
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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to (A)the bitter in soul,
21 who (B)long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for (C)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
Genesis 27:46
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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, (A)“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[a] (B)If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
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- Genesis 27:46 Hebrew daughters of Heth
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