Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Revelation 9:6 in English Standard Version "And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them." Job 3:21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, Job 7:15 so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. Jer 8:3 Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.