Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, I beg you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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4Yahweh said, “Is it good that you are so angry?”
Cross References
Numbers 11:15Since you are treating me this way, kill me now—if I find favor in your eyes—do not let me see my misery.”
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. He requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough, now, Yahweh; take away my life, for I am no better than my dead ancestors.”
Job 6:8Oh, that I might have my request; 1 oh, that God would grant me the thing I long for: 1
Job 7:16I loathe my life; I would not wish to always be alive; 1 let me alone for my days are useless. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be quick to anger in your spirit, 2 for anger resides in the hearts of fools. 1
Jonah 4:8It came about that when the sun rose the next morning, God prepared a hot east wind. Also, the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he became faint. Then Jonah wished that he might die. He said to himself, “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 →