Jonah Chapter 4 verse 3 Holy Bible
Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
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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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Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Take... my life from me (comp. ver. 8). Jonah throughout represents himself as petty, hasty, and self-willed, prone to exaggerate matters, and easily reduced to despair. Here, because his word is not fulfilled, he wishes to die, though he will not take his own life. In a different spirit Moses (Exodus 32:32) is ready to die for his people's sake, and Elijah asked for death because his zeal for God had apparently wrought no effect (1 Kings 19:4).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Take, I beseech thee.--We naturally refer to the history of Elijah for a similar weariness and disgust of life. (Comp. also the case of Moses, Numbers 11:15). It should be noticed, as a contrast of Hebrew with heathen feeling, that none of these men in their loathing of life contemplated the possibility of suicide.