“Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah's request that God take his life because it is better to die than to live indicates the depth of Jonah's despair. The extreme reaction suggests that Jonah's concern extended beyond personal preference to a theological position about the proper functioning of divine judgment.
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