Jonah 4:3
And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?
Cross References
Numbers 11:15But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
1 Kings 19:4And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 6:8Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
Job 7:16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
Jonah 4:8And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul 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 →