11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

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

• 1Cor 9:15 — But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
• 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
• 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
• Eccl 7:1 — A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
• Exod 14:12 — Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wildern
• 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.
• Jer 20:14 — Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
• Job 3:20 — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 3:21 — Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
• Job 6:8 — Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
• Job 6:9 — Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• Job 7:15 — So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
• Jonah 4:8 — And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for
• Jonah 4:8 — And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for
• Num 11:15 — And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
• Num 11:15 — And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
• Num 14:2 — And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wi
• Num 20:3 — And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
• Phil 1:21 — For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.