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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jon 4:3 — 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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Num 11:15 |
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. |
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Num 20:3 |
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! |
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1Ki 19:4 |
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 LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers. |
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Job 3:20 |
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; |
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Job 3:21 |
Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; |
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Job 6:8 |
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! |
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Job 6:9 |
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! |
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Jer 20:14 |
Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. |
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Jer 20:15 |
Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. |
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Jer 20:16 |
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; |
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Jer 20:17 |
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me]. |
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Jer 20:18 |
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? |
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Phl 1:21 |
For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain. |
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Phl 1:22 |
But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. |
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Phl 1:23 |
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: |
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Phl 1:24 |
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. |
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Phl 1:25 |
And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; |
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Jon 4:8 |
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live. |
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Job 7:15 |
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. |
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Job 7:16 |
I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. |
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Ecc 7:1 |
A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. |
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1Cr 9:15 |
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Jonah 4:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jon/4/3.html>.
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