Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
Cross References
Numbers 11:15If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
1 Kings 19:4While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 6:8If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Job 7:16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Jonah 4:8Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
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 →