Jonah 4:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
  • Eccl 7:1 : 1 Better `is' a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope! 9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones. 16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! 15 Cursed `is' the man who bore tidings `to' my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,' Making him very glad! 16 Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon. 17 Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. 18 Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
  • Phil 1:21-25 : 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain. 22 And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not; 23 for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better, 24 and to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account, 25 and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
  • Num 20:3 : 3 and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

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  • 1 Kgs 19:4
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    4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'

  • Jonah 4:2
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    2 and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

  • Job 7:15-16
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    76%

    15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

    16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

  • Num 11:15
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    15 and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

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    4 And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'

  • Jonah 4:8-9
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    8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

    9 And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

  • 2 Sam 1:9
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    9 `And he saith unto me, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and put me to death, for seized me hath the arrow, for all my soul `is' still in me.

  • Ps 39:13
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    13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

  • Job 6:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

    9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

  • Job 10:20
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    20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • Ps 116:3-4
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    3 Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

    4 And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

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    14 And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

    15 Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

  • Job 10:1
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    1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Lam 1:20
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    20 See, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house `it is' as death.

  • Isa 38:15-16
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    15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

    16 Lord, by these do `men' live, And by all in them `is' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

  • Jonah 2:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

    4 And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    72%

    3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4 And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • Ps 6:4
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    4 Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

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    13 Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

  • Ps 55:4
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    4 My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • Job 10:18
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    18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4 I -- I said, `O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

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    9 And he saith, `What have I sinned, that thou art giving thy servant into the hand of Ahab -- to put me to death?

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    3 For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

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    13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

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    23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.

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    4 `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

  • Ps 40:13
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    13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.

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    3 Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,

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    10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

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    21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

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    5 I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou `art' my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'

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    18 And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

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    20 And now, hearken, I pray thee, my lord, O king, let my supplication fall, I pray thee, before thee, and cause me not to return `to' the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I die not there.'

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    10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.