~ die than to live ~ 32_JON_04_03 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live. #, 32_JON_04_08 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. #,