“It was the claim of the Jews that only they would go to paradise and life in paradise is definitely more comfortable than the life in this world. Therefore Allah (SWT) is challenging them to desire for death so as to go paradise if they are truthful in their claim. At the same time, He declares that they would never desire for death because of their evil deeds of which they are conscious and which would actually land them in hell. He further reveals that they and the polytheists, contrary to desiring death, are greediest among human beings for long lives wishing to live even for 1000 years. But living for longer periods i.e. pushing death further away in time, if possible, cannot cancel their punishment for the evils they did, because Allah (SWT) being the Knower of the seen and the unseen, knows all that they had done including their injustices.”