Jonah 4:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

So now, Lord, 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 to die, and said, “Enough! Now, Lord, 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 one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry, For anger resides in the heart 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 driven them,” declares the Lord of armies.

Jonah 4:4

But the Lord said, “Do you have a good reason to be angry?”

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun came up God designated a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint, and he begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life!”

Numbers 11:15

So if You are going to deal with me this way, please kill me now, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my misery.”

Numbers 20:3

Then the people argued with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make my boast an empty one!