Jonah 4:3
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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Jonah 4:3
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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Jonah 4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
Exodus 4:14
Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
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1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Jonah 4:8
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 6:8
“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 14:13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Jeremiah 8:3
Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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Jonah 4:4
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Jonah 4:5
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah 4:9
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
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Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Philippians 1:24
Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
Philippians 1:25
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
John 17:15
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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Job 6:10
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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