But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I [am] no better than my fathers!"

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

Who rejoice exceedingly, [And] are glad when they can find the grave?

" Oh, that I might have my request, That God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish, I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

So that my soul chooses strangling [And] death rather than my body.

"Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for [it is] better for me to die than to live!"

And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, "[It is] better for me to die than to live."

Then God said to Jonah, "[Is it] right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "[It is] right for me to be angry, even to death!"

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if [I] live on in the flesh, this [will mean] fruit from [my] labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.

Nevertheless to remain in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

But let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, [Which] refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, [As] waters [that] fail?

Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

The LORD has taken away your judgments, He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, [is] in your midst; You shall see disaster no more.