6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
John relates that “in those days people will seek death.” There is no relief to the torment these scorpion‑like locusts inflict, with every new day being as hellishly painful as the previous, so that people get suicidal.
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.