Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'
Cross References
Numbers 11:15And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom-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.'
Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 7:16I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement 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 →