Job 3:21

New King James Version

Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;

Cross References

Revelation 9:6

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Jonah 4:8

And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, 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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Numbers 11:15

If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”

Job 3:22

Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?

Jeremiah 8:3

Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.

Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, 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 loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

So that my soul chooses strangling And death rather than my body.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they shall not escape, And their hope—loss of life!”

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, More than the living who are still alive.