Job 10:1

¹¹“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

⁴But 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 LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

¹⁵If 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.”

²¹I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

⁸When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

³Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

¹⁶I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

²“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. ³Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on. ⁴As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?