Job 7:15

God's Word

My throat would rather be choked. My body  would prefer death ⌞to these dreams⌟.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his advice hadn’t been followed, he saddled his donkey, left, and went home to his own city. He gave instructions to his family. Then he hanged himself, died, and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Job 3:21

to those who long for death but it never comes— though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?

Job 3:22

They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.

Job 7:14

then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

Job 7:16

I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief.

Job 9:21

If I am a man of integrity, I have no way of knowing it. I hate my life!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I came to hate life because everything done under the sun seemed wrong to me. Everything was pointless. ⌞It was like⌟ trying to catch the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

“Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them,” declares the Lord of Armies.

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, take my life. I’d rather be dead than alive.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God made a hot east wind blow. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he was about to faint. He wanted to die. So he said, “I’d rather be dead than alive.”

Matthew 27:5

So he threw the money into the temple, went away, and hanged himself.

Revelation 9:6

At that time people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.