Numbers 11:15

New American Bible - revised edition

If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.” The Seventy Elders.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 7:15

So that I should prefer strangulation and death rather than my existence.

Exodus 32:32

Now if you would only forgive their sin! But if you will not, then blot me out of the book that you have written.”

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? To me you are like a deceptive brook, waters that cannot be relied on!

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb, to see sorrow and pain, to end my days in shame?

Jonah 4:3

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

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has removed the judgment against you, he has turned away your enemies; The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst, you have no further misfortune to fear.

James 1:4

And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.