Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Are you doing right in being angry about the bush?” He replied, “I have every right to be as angry as I could possibly be!”

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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 when the sun rose, God arranged a hot east wind. And the sun beat upon Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and begged that he might die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

10The Lord said, “You care about a bush which has cost you no trouble and which you have not made grow, which came up in a night and wilted in a night.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5but he could not receive Cain and his offering with approval. Cain burned with anger and his face fell.

2 Corinthians 7:10For, when sorrow is in accordance with God’s will, it results in a repentance leading to salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is 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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