Jonah 4:3

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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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Philippians 1:21

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So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

The people contended with Moses, and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished [in the plague] before the Lord!

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].

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When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

A good name is better than precious perfume,
And the day of one’s death better than the day of one’s birth.

But I have used none of these privileges, nor am I writing this [to suggest] that any such provision be made for me now. For it would be better for me to die than to have anyone deprive me of my boast [in this matter of financial support].