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 you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the 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 not better than my fathers.

Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Cursed be the day on which I was born: let not the day on 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 did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

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: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.