Jonah 4:3

New American Bible - revised edition

So now, Lord, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than good ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not let anger upset your spirit, for anger lodges in the bosom of a fool.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be preferred to life by all the survivors of this wicked people who remain in any of the places to which I banish them—oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

But the Lord asked, “Are you right to be angry?”

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun arose, God provided a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon Jonah’s head till he became faint. Then he wished for death, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.” The Seventy Elders.

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses, exclaiming, “Would that we had perished when our kindred perished before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

I have not used any of these rights, however, nor do I write this that it be done so in my case. I would rather die. Certainly no one is going to nullify my boast.