Bible Cross References
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Numbers 11:15
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!
Numbers 20:3
And the people strove with Moses and spoke, saying: If only we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
1 Kings 19:4
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!
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 3:21
who long for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than hidden treasures;
Job 6:8
Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant me the thing that I long for;
Job 6:9
that it would please God to crush me, that He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Jeremiah 20:14-18
14
Cursed be the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15
Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you; making him very glad.
16
And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew without compassion; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;
17
because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always pregnant.
18
Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Philippians 1:21-25
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For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I do not know.
23
For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
24
Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.
25
And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith,
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Jonah 4:8
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.
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my body.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so with me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my exulting void.