Jonah 4:3

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And now, O YHWH, please take my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.”

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.Gr. sovereign Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה קַח־נָ֥א אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֶּ֑נִּי כִּ֛י ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ νῦν, δέσποτα Κύριε, λάβε τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι καλὸν τὸ ἀποθανεῖν με ἢ ζῇν με.

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• Jonah and the great fish Jonah flees God's call to Nineveh; thrown overboard, he is swallowed by a great fish and returned to land. Sent again, he warns the city; it…

Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on 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 7:1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
• Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. May that man be like the cities…
• Numbers 11:15If 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.”
• Jonah 4:8As 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.”
• Numbers 20:3The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
• Philippians 1:21–25For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be…
• Job 3:20–21Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
• Job 7:15–16so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• 1 Corinthians 9:15But 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 6:8–9If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

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