Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ "Who will grant my wish? I wish God would grant what I'm hoping for: ⁹ that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me! ¹⁰ At least I could still take comfort and rejoice in unceasing anguish, for I didn't conceal what the Holy One has to say.

Reach Out

Job

1 Kings 19:4

and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"

Numbers 11:14-15

I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me!

Job 3:20-22

"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:

Job 7:15-16

I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.

Job 14:13

"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.

Job 19:21

"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

Psalm 32:4

For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude

Isaiah 48:10-13

Look, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a harsh east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah's head, he became faint, and he begged to die. "It is better for me to die than to live!" he said.

Revelation 9:6

In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.