Jonah 4:3
Therefore nowe O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
4Then saide the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
Cross References
Numbers 11:15Therefore if thou deale thus with mee, I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, kill me, that I behold not my miserie.
1 Kings 19:4But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
Job 6:8Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 7:16I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.
Jonah 4:8And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
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 →