Revelation 9:6

6 And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades 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 And they were forbidden to injure the herbage of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree. They were only to injure human beings--those who have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man.

6 And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them.

7 The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses equipped for war. On their heads they had wreaths which looked like gold.

8 Their faces seemed human and they had hair like women's hair, but their teeth resembled those of lions.