Jonah 4:3

Legacy Standard Bible

So now, O Yahweh, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Better is a good name than good oil, And better is the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be eager in your spirit to be vexed, For vexation rests in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have banished them,” declares Yahweh of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

And Yahweh said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?”

Jonah 4:8

Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and asked with all his soul to die and said, “Death is better to me than life.”

Numbers 11:15

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 20:3

The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had breathed our last when our brothers breathed their last before Yahweh!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than have anyone make my boast an empty one.