would

Numbers 20:3-6
The people quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had perished when our brothers fell dead before the LORD. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!'--because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

Joshua 7:7
"O, Lord GOD, " Joshua said, "why did You ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

2 Samuel 18:33
The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

Lamentations 4:9
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Acts 26:29
"Short time or long, " Paul replied, "I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains."

1 Corinthians 4:8
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

2 Corinthians 11:1
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.

we had

Numbers 11:15
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now--if I have found favor in Your eyes--and let me not see my own wretchedness."

Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Job 3:1, 10, 20
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. . . .

Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. . . .

Jonah 4:8, 9
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, "It is better for me to die than to live." . . .

flesh

Exodus 2:23
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Numbers 11:4, 5
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, "Who will feed us meat? . . .

to kill

Exodus 5:21
"May the LORD look upon you and judge you, " the foremen said, "for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!"

Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: "Why have you brought us out of Egypt--to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?"

Numbers 16:13, 41
Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us? . . .

hunger

Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and in your hunger gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, 'Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?'

Lamentations 4:9
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.