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.

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

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