Job 3:20-23
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave? Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Job 3
2 songs meet this passage
hate myself · izumi is dead
resonates with Job 3:20-23
Job asks the same raw question about why life continues amid suffering; the song's cry mirrors his, though without Job's eventual encounter with God.
I Am Not Okay · Jelly Roll
resonates with Job 3:20-21
Job's raw wish for death in his suffering gives scriptural precedent for voicing this kind of dark, honest despair without it being the final word.
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