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.

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.

He said: "I called out to the LORD from the midst of affliction directed at me, and he answered me. From the depths of death I cried out for help; and you heard my cry.

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'