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1 Kings 19 4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I[ am] not better than my fathers.
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Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for[ it is] better for me to die than to live.
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Job 3:20-22
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter[ in] soul;Which long for death, but it[ cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;Which rejoice exceedingly,[ and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Philippians 1:20-24
According to my earnest expectation and[ my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but[ that] with all boldness, as always,[ so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether[ it be] by life, or by death.For to me to live[ is] Christ, and to die[ is] gain.But if I live in the flesh, this[ is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:Nevertheless to abide in the flesh[ is] more needful for you.
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James 1:4
But let patience have[ her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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Job 6:8-10
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant[ me] the thing that I long for!Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,[ which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar,[ and as] waters[ that] fail?
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Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
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Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling,[ and] death rather than my life.
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Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Jonah 4:8-9
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,[ It is] better for me to die than to live.And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry,[ even] unto death.
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Zephaniah 3:15
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel,[ even] the LORD,[ is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.