Job 3:21

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

Cross References

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

1 Kings 19:4

And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper-tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me. Lord, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.

Numbers 11:15

But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me: and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

Job 3:22

And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred, in all places which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Job 6:8

Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?

Job 6:9

And that he that hath begun may destroy me: that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Job 7:15

So that my soul rather chooseth hanging: and my bones death.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I praised the dead rather than the living: