And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Shall desire, х epithumeesousin (G1937)] - set their mind on.
Shall flee. So B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic ['Aleph ('), fugee (G5437)]; but A, 'fleeth,' namely, continually. In Revelation 6:16, at a later stage of God's judgments, the ungodly seek annihilation, not from the torment of suffering, but from fear of the Lamb, before whom they have to stand.