Job 3:20

Job Wishes He Might Die

¹⁹ “The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.
²⁰ “Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
²¹ Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job

Job 7:15-16

So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I ever come forth from the womb
To look on trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been spent in shame?

1 Samuel 1:10

She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

2 Kings 4:27

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

Job 3:16

“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.

Job 6:9

“Would that God were willing to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 33:28

‘He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit,
And my life shall see the light.’

Job 33:30

To bring back his soul from the pit,
That he may be enlightened with the light of life.