Jonah 4:3
And now, O YHWH, please take my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4And YHWH says, “Is doing good displeasing to you?”
Cross References
Numbers 11:15and if thus You are doing to me—please slay me; slay, if I have found grace in your eyes, and do not let me look on my affliction.”
1 Kings 19:4and he himself has gone a day’s journey into the wilderness, and comes and sits under a certain broom tree, and desires his soul to die, and says, “Enough, now, O YHWH, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.”
Job 6:8O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
Job 7:16I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry, || For anger in the bosom of fools rests.
Jonah 4:8And it comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my 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 →