Numbers 11:15
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15 If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.”
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1 Kings 19:4
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4 (A)and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”
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Job 7:15
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15 So that I should prefer strangulation
and death rather than my existence.[a]
Footnotes
- 7:15 Existence: lit., bones; the Hebrew is unclear.
Jonah 4:3
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3 So now, Lord, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”(A)
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Jonah 4:8
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8 And when the sun arose, God provided a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon Jonah’s head till he became faint. Then he wished for death, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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