Jonah 4:3

New English Translation

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good reputation is better than precious perfume; likewise, the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Jonah 4:4

The Lord said, “Are you really so very angry?”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, “I would rather die than live!”

Numbers 11:15

But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

Numbers 20:3

The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!