Jonah 4:9

Then said God unto Jonah, Art thou rightly angry over the gourd? And he said, I am rightly angry, unto death.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint,—and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.

10Then said Yahweh, Thou, wouldest have spared the gourd, for which thou hadst not toiled, neither hadst thou made it grow,—which, as the off-spring of a night, came up, and, as the offspring of a night, perished;

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5but of Cain and his present, he approved not,—and it angered Cain greatly, and his countenance fell.

Judges 16:16And it came to pass, when she urged him with her words continually, and pressed him, that his soul became impatient, unto death;

Job 5:2For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

Job 40:4Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:

2 Corinthians 7:10For, grief according to God, worketh, repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; although, the grieving of the world, worketh, 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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