Jonah 4:3 - Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And now, Lord, I ask you to take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Therefore now, O Lord, I beseech You, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Common English Bible

³ At this point, LORD, you may as well take my life from me, because it would be better for me to die than to live.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

English Standard Version 2016

³ Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 19:4

And he continued on, into the desert, for one day's journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: "It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers."

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Why is it necessary for a man to seek things that are greater than himself, when he does not know what is advantageous for himself in his life, during the number of the days of his sojourn, and while time passes by like a shadow? Or who will be able to tell him what will be in the future after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:9

The end of a speech is better than the beginning. Patience is better than arrogance.

Jeremiah 8:3

And they will greatly prefer death to life: all those who will have been left from this wicked kindred, in all the forsaken places to which I will cast them out, says the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

And the Lord said, "Do you really think you are right to be angry?"

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

Numbers 11:15

But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils."

Numbers 20:3

And as it turned into sedition, they said: "If only we had perished among our brothers in the sight of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 9:15

Yet I have used none of these things. And I have not written so that these things may be done for me. For it is better for me to die, rather than to let anyone empty out my glory.