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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all[ was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and[ there was] no profit under the sun.
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Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for[ it is] better for me to die than to live.
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Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,[ It is] better for me to die than to live.
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Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling,[ and] death rather than my life.I loathe[ it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days[ are] vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all[ is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Job 14:13
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better[ is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this[ is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause[ me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence[ are] before me: and there are[ that] raise up strife and contention.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
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Philippians 1:23-25
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:Nevertheless to abide in the flesh[ is] more needful for you.And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
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Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed[ be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.Cursed[ be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb[ to be] always great[ with me].Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Ezekiel 3:14
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment,[ that] wickedness[ was] there; and the place of righteousness,[ that] iniquity[ was] there.
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Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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Job 3:20-22
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter[ in] soul;Which long for death, but it[ cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;Which rejoice exceedingly,[ and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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1 Kings 19 4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I[ am] not better than my fathers.