Jonah 4:3 - 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.

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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.”

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."

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 went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper-tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me. Lord, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred, in all places which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:4

And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Numbers 11:15

But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me: and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

Numbers 20:3

And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die, rather than that any man should make my glory void.