Jonah 4:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

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

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this so that they may be applied in my case. Indeed, I would rather die than that—no one will deprive me of my ground for boasting!