Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And LORD said, Do thou well to be angry?
Cross References
Numbers 11:15And 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.
1 Kings 19:4But 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 no better than my
Job 6:8O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Job 7:16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live
Matthew Henry on Jonah 4:2-5
The Prophet's Discontent. ( b. c. 840.) 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And he prayed unto the Lord , and said, I pray thee, O Lord , was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O Lord , take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the Lord ,… Read the whole commentary →