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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If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"

As the people argued with Moses, they told him, "We wish that we had died when our relatives died in the LORD's presence!

and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"

"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:

"Who will grant my wish? I wish God would grant what I'm hoping for:

Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

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When the sun rose, God prepared a harsh east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah's head, he became faint, and he begged to die. "It is better for me to die than to live!" he said.

I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.

A good name exceeds the value of fine perfume, and the day of someone's death exceeds the value of the day of his birth.

But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.