Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon t
and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
If 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
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me a
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”