For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in grief?

Who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;

Let the Lord begin to wound me, but let Him not utterly destroy me.

You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.

Oh that You had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until Your wrath should cease, and You should set me a time in which You would remember me!

For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the captive in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all cattle.

And it came to pass at night that the Angel of the Lord went forth, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose early in the morning, and behold, [these were] all dead corpses.

The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

If the clouds are filled with rain, they pour [it] out upon the earth; and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

In the same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

"to receive the portion in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."

For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.