Job 3:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,”
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“who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 3:21 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Job 6:8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
- Ecclesiastes 4:2So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
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