Job 3:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

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  • Rev 9:6 : 6 Therefore in those dayes shall men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flie from them.
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If thou seekest her as siluer, & searchest for her as for treasures,
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore nowe O Lorde, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 Therefore if thou deale thus with mee, I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, kill me, that I behold not my miserie.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.

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