Job 7:15

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Matthew 27:5

And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

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.

Job 7:14

then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:16

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

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.

Jonah 4:3

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

Job 3:21

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

Job 3:22

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

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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.”