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Jonah 4

Jonah 4:9

Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion · Jonah 4:1–11
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Translations

Modern
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
Traditional
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Literal
And God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be hot about the qiqayon?” And he said, “It is right; it burns in me, even to death!”
Latin
Et dixit Dominus ad Jonam: Putasne bene irasceris tu super hedera? Et dixit: Bene irascor ego usque ad mortem.

Original

Hebrew
English
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

Notes

Jonah 3:1–4:11

God commands Jonah again to preach to Nineveh. This time, Jonah obeys. Ironically, the city repents, just as Jonah feared, and he becomes angry with God.

Events

People

Jonah: Prophet swallowed by fish, preached to Nineveh

Glossary

Book of Jonah Gourd

Topics

Anger: Jonah, Because the Gourd Withered Gourd: Jonah's, Believed to be a Vine Resembling the American Squash, Used in Assyria to Cover Huts Life: (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Jonah Murmuring: Jonah