Jonah 4:9

Then God said to Jonah, “Is it good that you are so angry about the plant?” Then Jonah said, “It is good that I am angry, even to death.”

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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

8It came about that when the sun rose the next morning, God prepared a hot east wind. Also, the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he became faint. Then Jonah wished that he might die. He said to himself, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

10Yahweh said, “You have had compassion for the plant, for which you have not labored, nor did you make it grow. It grew up in a night and died in a night.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5but Cain and his offering he did not accept. So Cain was very angry, and he scowled.

Judges 16:16Every day she pressed him hard with her words, and she pressured him so much that he wished he would die.

Job 5:2For anger kills the foolish man; 1 jealousy kills the silly one. 1

Job 40:4“See, I am insignificant; how can I answer you? 1 I put my hand over my mouth. 1

2 Corinthians 7:10For godly sorrow brings about repentance that accomplishes salvation without regret. Worldly sorrow, however, brings about 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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