The King James Version Bible

Job 3:21

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Cross References

  1. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
  2. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
  3. 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.
  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.
  5. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  6. 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.