Jonah 4:10

And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9And God said to Jonah, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

11and shall not I spare Nineveh, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Cross References

Genesis 17:12And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

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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