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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And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.

And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before LORD!

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 no better than my

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

O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

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

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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live

so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.

A [good] name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, than the day of birth.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.