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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.