Jonah 4:3

Jonah Is Angry At Yahweh's Compassion

² He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? That is why I ran to Tarshish, because I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, and [when sinners turn to You] You revoke the [sentence of] disaster [against them]. ³ Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” ⁴ Then the Lord said, “Do you have a good reason to be angry?”

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Jehovah

Jonah

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than precious perfume,
And the day of one’s death better than the day of one’s birth.

Job 6:8-9

“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job 7:15-16

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Numbers 11:15

So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 20:3

The people contended with Moses, and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished [in the plague] before the Lord!

Job 3:20-21

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these privileges, nor am I writing this [to suggest] that any such provision be made for me now. For it would be better for me to die than to have anyone deprive me of my boast [in this matter of financial support].

Philippians 1:21-25

For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].