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

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.

¹ A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

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.

⁸ "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

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

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²² But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose.

²³ But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

²⁴ Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

²⁵ Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

¹⁵ But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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."

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.

¹⁶ Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

¹⁷ because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

¹⁸ Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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,

³ The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

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.