Bible Cross References
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Numbers 11:15
If you are going to treat me like this, have pity on me and kill me, so that I won't have to endure your cruelty any longer."
Numbers 20:3
and complained: "It would have been better if we had died in front of the LORD's Tent along with the other Israelites.
1 Kings 19:4
Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down in the shade of a tree and wished he would die. "It's too much, LORD," he prayed. "Take away my life; I might as well be dead!"
Job 3:20
Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief ?
Job 3:21
They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.
Job 6:8
Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?
Job 6:9
If only he would go ahead and kill me!
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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Curse the day I was born! Forget the day my mother gave me birth!
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Curse the one who made my father glad by bringing him the news, "It's a boy! You have a son!"
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May he be like those cities that the LORD destroyed without mercy. May he hear cries of pain in the morning and the battle alarm at noon,
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for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.
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Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?
Philippians 1:21-25
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For what is life? To me, it is Christ. Death, then, will bring more.
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But if by continuing to live I can do more worthwhile work, then I am not sure which I should choose.
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I am pulled in two directions. I want very much to leave this life and be with Christ, which is a far better thing;
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but for your sake it is much more important that I remain alive.
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I am sure of this, and so I know that I will stay. I will stay on with you all, to add to your progress and joy in the faith,
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Jonah 4:8
After the sun had risen, God sent a hot east wind, and Jonah was about to faint from the heat of the sun beating down on his head. So he wished he were dead. "I am better off dead than alive," he said.
Job 7:15
until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body.
Job 7:16
I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good reputation is better than expensive perfume; and the day you die is better than the day you are born.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I haven't made use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this now in order to claim such rights for myself. I would rather die first! Nobody is going to turn my rightful boast into empty words!