Nothing could make me happier than to be in the grave.
But those who are evil will go blind and lose their way. Their only escape is death!
the earth welcomes them home, while crowds mourn.
I keep longing for death more than I would seek a valuable treasure.
Why do I go on living when God has me surrounded, and I can't see the road?
Then I would be comforted, knowing that in all of my pain I have never disobeyed God.
How I wish that God would answer my prayer
I'd rather choke to death than live in this body.
I said to myself, "The dead are better off than the living.
But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth."
Some of you people of Judah will be left alive, but I will force you to go to foreign countries, and you will wish you were dead. I, the LORD God All-Powerful, have spoken.