5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Isa 2:22 — Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
• Jer 8:3 — And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Job 3:20 — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 6:9 — Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• Jonah 4:3 — Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
• Luke 14:26 — If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• Rev 9:6 — And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.