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, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

For for me to live is Christ, and to die 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, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

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

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.