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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Philippians 1:20-24
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20 It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in any way but that by my speaking with all boldness Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death.(A) 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,(B) 24 but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.
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Jonah 4:8-9
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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.”
Jonah Is Reproved
9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.”
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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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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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James 1:4
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4 And let endurance complete its work, so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.
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Zephaniah 3:15
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15 The Lord has taken away the judgments against you;
he has turned away your enemies.
The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
you shall fear disaster no more.(A)
Jeremiah 20:18
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18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(A)
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.(A)
Job 7:15
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15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
Job 6:8-10
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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)
10 This would be my consolation;
I would even exult[a] in unrelenting pain,
for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.(C)
Footnotes
- 6.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 3:20-22
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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)
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
Exodus 32:32
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32 But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of the book that you have written.”(A)
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