Jonah 4:3
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
World English Bible (WEB)
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Jonah 4:3 Cross References
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and 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.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
