Jonah 4:9

And God says to Jonah: “Is doing good displeasing to you, because of the gourd?” And he says, “To do good is displeasing to me—to death.”

Literal Standard Version

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 comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my life.”

10And YHWH says, “You have had pity on the gourd, for which you did not labor, neither did you nourish it, which came up [as] a son of night, and perished [as] a son of night,

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5and to Cain and to his present He has not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

Judges 16:16And it comes to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and urges him, and his soul is grieved to death,

Job 5:2For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,

Job 40:4“Behold, I have been vile, || What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.

2 Corinthians 7:10for sorrow toward God works conversion to salvation without regret, and the sorrow 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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