⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

³ Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

¹⁵ So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.

⁶ In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

⁸ It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹ For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.

¹² Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

¹³ Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

²¹ "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

¹³ "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

²⁰ "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,

²¹ Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

²² Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

¹⁵ If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.