Jonah 4:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Therefore now, O Lord, I beseech You, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Common English Bible

³ At this point, LORD, you may as well take my life from me, because it would be better for me to die than to live.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And now, Lord, I ask you to take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live."

Jonah 4:3 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave: and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

Numbers 11:15

0 But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?

Jonah 4:8

For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Juda? are they not Jerusalem ?

Numbers 20:3

Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.

1 Corinthians 9:15

4 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run that you may obtain.

Jeremiah 8:3

1 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no peace.

Jonah 4:4

The word of the Lord that came to Micheas the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

6 Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.