⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

³ Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.