Jonah 4:3

Modern English Version

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

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

Numbers 11:15

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 20:3

The people argued with Moses, and spoke, saying, “O that we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these rights, nor have I written these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die than allow anyone to make my boasting void.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, which remains in all the places wherever I have driven them, says the Lord of Hosts.

Jonah 4:4

Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger settles in the bosom of fools.