Jonah 4:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.*

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of Armies.

Jonah 4:4

The LORD said, *Is it right for you to be angry?*

Jonah 4:8

It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Yonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, *It is better for me to die than to live.*

Numbers 11:15

If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Numbers 20:3

The people strove with Moshe, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.