Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief ?

They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.

If only he would go ahead and kill me!

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

I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.

My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.

I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.

At midnight the LORD killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.

That night an angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

Wicked people bring about their own downfall by their evil deeds, but good people are protected by their integrity.

No matter which direction a tree falls, it will lie where it fell. When the clouds are full, it rains.

That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

to serve as an apostle in the place of Judas, who left to go to the place where he belongs."

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.