Job 3:21
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
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Referenced Verses
- Rev 9:6 : 6 and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
- Prov 2:4 : 4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
- Jonah 4:3 : 3 And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'
- Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'
- Num 11:15 : 15 and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
- 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
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