Job 3:21

Modern English Version

who look for death, but it is not there; and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;

Cross References

Revelation 9:6

In those days men will seek death but will not find it. They will desire to die, but death will elude them.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,

Jonah 4:8

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

Jonah 4:3

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

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:15

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

Job 3:22

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

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, which remains in all the places wherever I have driven them, says the Lord of Hosts.

Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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 my soul chooses strangling, even death rather than my life.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I thought that the dead, who had already died, were more fortunate than the living, who were still alive.