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

and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

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

For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

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!

I shall not be able to bear these people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.

And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.

And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take my life from me, I pray, for I am no better than my fathers.

And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall by no means find it; they shall be longing to die, yet death shall elude them.

Pity me, pity me, O my friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

Behold, I have sold you, [but] not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.

Hear Me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure forever.