Jonah 4:3

The Scriptures 1998

“And now, O יהוה, 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 broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

“And death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” declares יהוה  of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

And יהוה  said, “Are you right to be displeased?”

Jonah 4:8

And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

“And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”

Numbers 20:3

And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before יהוה!

1 Corinthians 9:15

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