Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

who are joyful with exultation, and are glad when they meet the grave;

so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my body.

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath.

O that You would hide me in Sheol, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is turned back, that You would appoint me a decree, and remember me!

I am not able to bear all these people alone, because they are too heavy for me.

If You are dealing with me like this, please kill and destroy me, if I have found favor in Your eyes; and do not let me see my distress!

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he requested for his soul that he might die, and said, It is enough! Now, Jehovah, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!

And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live.

And it happened when the sun rose, that God appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he begged for his soul to die. And he said, It is better for me to die than to live.

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will crave to die, and death will flee from them.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends! For the hand of God has struck me!

For by day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Listen to me O Jacob, and Israel My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.