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 to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

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Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.