Revelation 9:6
Good News Translation
During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.

New Revised Standard Version
And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

Contemporary English Version
In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them.

New American Bible
During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

shall men.

Revelation 6:16 And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

2 Samuel 1:9 And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.

Job 3:20-22 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul? . . .

Job 7:15,16 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. . . .

Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

Jeremiah 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 10:8 And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.

John 4:8,9 For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. . . .

Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us.

Context
The Fifth Trumpet
5And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. 6And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them. 7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.…
Cross References
Job 3:21
That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

Job 7:15
So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

Jeremiah 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Revelation 6:16
And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 9:5
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