Job 7:15

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

And Aḥ

Job 3:21

who are waiting for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than treasures;

Job 3:22

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

Job 7:14

then You frighten me with dreams and make me afraid with visions,

Job 7:16

I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 9:21

Am I perfect? Do I not know my own being? I despise my life!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on wind.

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.”

Matthew 27:5

And throwing down the pieces of silver in the Dwelling Place he left, and went and hanged himself.

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.