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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that God would be willing to crush(A) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!(B)

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

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16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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10 “I loathe my very life;(A)
    therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
    and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.(B)

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10 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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19 You know how I am scorned,(A) disgraced and shamed;
    all my enemies are before you.

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19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

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18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(A)
    to see trouble(B) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(C)

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

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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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