Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Jonah 4:3 in English Standard Version "Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”" 1Ki 19:4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” Ec 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.