15 If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now.(A) If You are pleased with me,(B) don’t let me see my misery[a] anymore.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:15 Ancient Jewish tradition reads Your misery

15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me(A)—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”

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15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

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And now, Lord, please take my life from me,(A) for it is better for me to die than to live.”(B)

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Now, Lord, take away my life,(A) for it is better for me to die(B) than to live.”(C)

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Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind.(A) The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head(B) that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”(C)

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When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(A) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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