Revelation 9:6

6 At that time people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.

Revelation 9:6 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men shall seek death
Or desire to die, as Job did:

and shall not find it;
or shall not die:

and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them;
death will be preferred to a miserable life; it will be chosen rather than life, ( Jeremiah 8:3 ) . The ravages of the Saracens, their incursions, and the invasions by them, struck such terror into the inhabitants of divers parts of the empire, that they made death more eligible to them than life.

Revelation 9:6 In-Context

4 They were told not to harm any grass, green plant, or tree on the earth. They could harm only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 They were not allowed to kill them. They were only allowed to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion's sting.

6 At that time people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They seemed to have crowns that looked like gold on their heads. Their faces were like human faces.

8 They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth.