Job 3:20

Longing for Death

3:20 “Why does God give light to one who is in misery,

and life to those whose soul is bitter,

Job 9:21

9:21 I am blameless. I do not know myself.

I despise my life.

Job 13:14

13:14 Why do I put myself in peril,

and take my life in my hands?

Job 14:22

14:22 Only his flesh has pain for himself,

and he mourns for himself.”

Job 21:25

21:25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul,

never having tasted anything good.

Job 23:13

23:13 But he is unchangeable, and who can change him?

Whatever he has desired, he does.

Job 27:2

27:2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,

the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –

Job 30:16

Job’s Despondency

30:16 “And now my soul pours itself out within me;

days of suffering take hold of me.

Job 30:25

30:25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate?

Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:30

31:30 I have not even permitted my mouth to sin

by asking for his life through a curse –

Job 31:39

31:39 if I have eaten its produce without paying,

or caused the death of its owners,

Job 33:18

33:18 He spares a person’s life from corruption,

his very life from crossing over the river.

Job 33:28

33:28 He redeemed my life

from going down to the place of corruption,

and my life sees the light!’

Job 33:30

33:30 to turn back his life from the place of corruption,

that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Job 41:21

41:21 Its breath sets coals ablaze

and a flame shoots from its mouth.