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 so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil

And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah!

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?

Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation?

Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed.

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

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And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.

A good name is above good oil, and the day of death above the day of birth.

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.