Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Cross references
- 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now — if I have found favor in Your eyes — and let me not see my own wretchedness.”