Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of life.

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept bitterly.

And when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her: and the LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.