Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

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“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
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“Then I would still have consolation,
And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,
That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.

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1 Kings 19:4

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

Job 3:20-22

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Job 7:15-16

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

Job 19:21

“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me;
My energy (vitality, strength) was drained away as with the burning heat of summer. Selah.

Isaiah 48:10-13

“Indeed, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested and chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.