Jonah 4:9

And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'

10And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had 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 4:5but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, 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 anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Job 40:4Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer Thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

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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