Jonah.4.3

Jonah 4:3

KJV

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

Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

KJV

¶ 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.

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

Job 6:8

KJV

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:9

KJV

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 7:15

KJV

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Job Continues: Life Seems Futile

Job 7:16

KJV

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Job Continues: Life Seems Futile

Ecclesiastes 7:1

KJV

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

The Value of Wisdom

Jeremiah 8:3

KJV GOD

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

Judah’s Sin and Punishment

Jonah 4:4

KJV GOD

¶ Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion

Jonah 4:8

KJV

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.