Jonah 4:3 “And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me…”

Jonah 4:3

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

World English Bible

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

American Standard Version

Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore nowe O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.

Darby Translation

And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

Young's Literal Translation

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.'

Bible in Basic English

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

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Cross references

“take”

1 Kings 19:4 Numbers 11:15 Jeremiah 20:14–18 Numbers 20:3 Philippians 1:21–25 Job 3:20

1 Kings 19:4 · BSB

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.”

Numbers 11:15 · BSB

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.”

Jeremiah 20:14–18 · BSB

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

Numbers 20:3 · BSB

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Philippians 1:21–25 · BSB

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Job 3:20 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

“for”

Ecclesiastes 7:1 Jonah 4:8 1 Corinthians 9:15 Job 7:15 Job 7:16

Ecclesiastes 7:1 · BSB

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

Jonah 4:8 · BSB

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Corinthians 9:15 · BSB

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.

Job 7:15 · BSB

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 7:16 · BSB

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

4But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

Read Jonah 4