Jonah 4:3

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, 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 juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Jonah 4:4

The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 20:3

The people quarrelled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.