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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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

kill me		1Ki 19:4; Job 3:20-22; Job 6:8-10; Job 7:15; Jon 4:3,8,9; Phl 1:20-24; Jam 1:4
let me not		Jer 15:18; Jer 20:18; Zep 3:15
my wretchedness		"Two of Dr. Kennicott's manuscripts read, ""their wretchedness."" The Jerusalem Targum has the same, and adds, by way of explanation, ""who are thine own people."""

Correlating Passages

kill me

	1Ki 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 life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
	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 3:22	Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
	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 6:10	Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
	Job 7:15	So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
	Jon 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.
	Jon 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 me to die than to live.
	Jon 4:9	And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.
	Phl 1:20	According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.
	Phl 1:21	For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.
	Phl 1:22	But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
	Phl 1:23	For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
	Phl 1:24	Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.
	Jam 1:4	But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

let me not

	Jer 15:18	Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
	Jer 20:18	Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
	Zep 3:15	The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

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Scott, Thomas. "Numbers 11:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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