Job 3:21

English Standard Version 2016

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Cross References

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:15

If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Job 3:22

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Jeremiah 8:3

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Job 6:8

“Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.