Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

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Bible References

Kill me

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,
Job 6:8
“Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!
Job 7:15
So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
James 1:4
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Let me not

Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream
With water that is unreliable?
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?
Zephaniah 3:15
The Lord has taken away His judgments against you,
He has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
You will fear disaster no more.

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Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?