Job 3:21

Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

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 asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Job 3:22

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

Job 6:8

“O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;

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 I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;

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, says the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:3

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

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon 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.”

Numbers 11:15

If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.