If only he would go ahead and kill me!

until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body.

I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.

Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?

or sleeping like a stillborn child.

He kept me from going to the world of the dead, and I am still alive."

each one saves a person's life, and gives him the joy of living.

until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body.

I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.

(SEE 1:9)

but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away, but Elisha said, "Leave her alone. Can't you see she's deeply distressed? And the LORD has not told me a thing about it."

Alcohol is for people who are dying, for those who are in misery.