Job 3:21

The Scriptures 1998

who are waiting for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than 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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!”

Job 3:22

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

Job 6:8

Oh that I might have my desire, that Eloah would grant me what I long for!

Job 6:9

That it would please Eloah to crush me, loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that my being chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Proverbs 2:4

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

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.

Jeremiah 8:3

“And death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” declares יהוה  of hosts.

Jonah 4:3

“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

“And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them.