Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Bible References
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Numbers 11:15 So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
Numbers 20:3 The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
Job 3:20 “Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
And life to the bitter of soul,
Job 6:8 “Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!
And that God would grant my longing!
Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
For
Jonah 4:8
When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”
Job 7:15 So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than mypains.
Death rather than my
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than a good ointment,
And theday of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.
And the
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.