Jonah 4:3

Jonah 4:3 in other translations

What does Jonah 4:3 mean?

Jonah 4:3 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Jonah 4:3

• 1 Kings 19:4

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 7:1

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

• Jeremiah 20:14-18

  Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. …

• Numbers 11:15

  And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

• Numbers 20:3

  And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

• Jonah 4:8

  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, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

• Job 7:15-16

  So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

• Job 3:20-21

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

• Job 6:8-9

  Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

• 1 Corinthians 9:15

  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 glorying void.

• Philippians 1:21-25

  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. …

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Context

• Jonah 4:2

  And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

• 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.

• Jonah 4:4

  Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

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