Jonah 4:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and he himself went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat under a certain broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die, and said, Enough, now, O Jehovah; take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not hasten to be angry in your spirit; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those who remain of this evil family, those who remain there in all the places there where I have driven them away, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.

Jonah 4:4

And Jehovah said, Is being angry being pleasing for you?

Jonah 4:8

And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah’s head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to death. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

Numbers 11:15

and if You deal thus with me, I pray quickly kill me, if I have found grace in Your eyes, and let me not look on my affliction.

Numbers 20:3

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have not used one of these. And I do not write these things that it be so in me. For it is good to me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.