Charles Ellicott Commentary Jonah 4:3

"Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." — Jonah 4:3 (ASV)

Take, I beseech you. —We naturally refer to the history of Elijah for a similar weariness and disgust of life. (Compare also the case of Moses, Numbers 11:15). It should be noticed, as a contrast of Hebrew with pagan feeling, that none of these men in their loathing of life contemplated the possibility of suicide.