Job 3:21

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”

Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;