Revelation 9:6

6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

Revelation 9:6 in Other Translations

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

6 In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!

6 When this happens, people are going to prefer death to torture, look for ways to kill themselves. But they won't find a way - death will have gone into hiding.

6 In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from 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 the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

Cross References

• 1. Job 3:21; Job 7:15; Jeremiah 8:3; Revelation 6:16