Cross references
Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 4:3 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 19:4 (12 votes) and Ecclesiastes 7:1 (8 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 27 to Philippians 1.
Which verses does Jonah 4:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 Kings 19:412 votes
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:18 votes
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Numbers 11:157 votes
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- Jeremiah 20:14–187 votes
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. …
- Numbers 20:36 votes
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- Jonah 4:86 votes
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Job 3:20–215 votes
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- Job 6:8–95 votes
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 7:15–165 votes
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- 1 Corinthians 9:155 votes
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.
- Philippians 1:21–255 votes
Which verses point to Jonah 4:3?
The 10 strongest of 19.