Jonah 4:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.””
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“And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better <FI>is<Fi> my death than my life.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jonah 4:3 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- Numbers 20:3The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- 1 Corinthians 9:15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.
- Philippians 1:21For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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