Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
World Messianic Bible British
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In Context
4The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Cross References
Numbers 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then 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 6:8“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Jonah 4:8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. 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 →