Jonah 4:9

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

10And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Judges 16:16And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death;

Job 5:2For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.

Job 40:4Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

2 Corinthians 7:10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 4:6-11

The Prophet's Discontent; The Withering of the Prophet's Gourd; God's Remonstrance with Jonah. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning… Read the whole commentary →

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