Jonah 4:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.

Jonah 4:4

And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

Jonah 4:8

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

Numbers 11:15

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

Numbers 20:3

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.