Jonah 4:3
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3 And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”(A)
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Jonah 4:3
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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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1 Kings 19:4
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4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush,(A) sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life;(B) I am no better than my ancestors.”
Ecclesiastes 7:1
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A Disillusioned View of Life
7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death, than the day of birth.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:1
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Wisdom
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!(A)
15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad.(B)
16 Let that man be like the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,(C)
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(D)
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(E)
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 Cursed be the day I was born!(A)
May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
who made him very glad, saying,
“A child is born to you—a son!”
16 May that man be like the towns(B)
the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing(C) in the morning,
a battle cry at noon.
17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(D)
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(E)
to see trouble(F) and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?(G)
Numbers 11:15
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15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”(A)
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Numbers 11:15
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15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me(A)—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
Philippians 1:21-25
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21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me, yet I cannot say which I will choose. 23 I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,(A) 24 but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you. 25 Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in faith,
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Philippians 1:21-25
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21 For to me, to live is Christ(A) and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart(B) and be with Christ,(C) which is better by far; 24 but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. 25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,
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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Jonah 4:8
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8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(A) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”
Numbers 20:3
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3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!(A)
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Numbers 20:3
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3 They quarreled(A) with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead(B) before the Lord!(C)
1 Corinthians 9:15
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15 But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this so that they may be applied in my case. Indeed, I would rather die than that—no one will deprive me of my ground for boasting!
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1 Corinthians 9:15
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15 But I have not used any of these rights.(A) And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast.(B)
Job 7:15-16
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15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)
Job 6:8-9
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8 “O that I might have my request
and that God would grant my desire,(A)
9 that it would please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!(B)
Job 6:8-9
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Job 3:20-21
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20 “Why is light given to one in misery
and life to the bitter in soul,(A)
21 who long for death, but it does not come,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;(B)
Job 3:20-21
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