Jonah 4:3
And now, Lord, I ask you to take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live.”
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4And the Lord said, “Do you really think you are right to be angry?”
Cross References
Numbers 11:15But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils.”
1 Kings 19:4And he continued on, into the desert, for one day’s journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: “It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 6:8Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Job 7:16I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
Ecclesiastes 7:9The end of a speech is better than the beginning. Patience is better than arrogance.
Jonah 4:8And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he 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 →