Jonah 4:3
"Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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Parallel scriptures and linked biblical themes for Jonah 4:3.
"But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and 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."
"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
"And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness."
"And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!"
"And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."
"But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void."