Jonah 4:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 19:4 : 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Eccl 7:1 : 1 A [good] name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth.
Job 6:8-9 : 8 Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16 I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
Phil 1:21-25 : 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the [flesh,—] [if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: 24 yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake. 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;
Job 3:20-21 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Num 20:3 : 3 And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

Similar Verses (AI)

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1 Kgs 19:4
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4But 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:2
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2And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Job 7:15-16
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15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
16I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Num 11:15
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15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Jonah 4:4
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4And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah 4:8-9
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8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
2 Sam 1:9
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9And he said unto me, Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me; for anguish hath taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
Ps 39:13
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13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Job 6:8-9
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8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 10:20
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20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Ps 116:3-4
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3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Jonah 1:14
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14Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.
Job 13:14-15
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14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 10:1
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1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Lam 1:20
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20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Isa 38:15-16
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15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
16O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
Jonah 2:3-4
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3For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Job 17:1
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1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
Ps 143:3-4
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3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Ps 6:4
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4Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.
Ps 31:9-10
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9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 9:13
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13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
Ps 55:4
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4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Job 10:18
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18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Ps 41:4
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4I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; For I have sinned against thee.
1 Kgs 18:9
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9And he said, Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
Ps 88:3
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3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
Job 14:13
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13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 30:23
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23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Ps 39:4
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4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
Ps 40:13
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13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
Ps 13:3
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3Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Isa 38:10-12
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10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 7:21
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21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Jonah 1:12
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12And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Ps 142:5
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5I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
Lam 3:18
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18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
Jer 37:20
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20And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Ps 39:10
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10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.