Jonah’s Anger
Jonah Is Reproved
6 And the Lord God appointed a plant,[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.[b] 7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant,[c] so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” 9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?”[d] And he said, “I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” 10 And the Lord said, “You pity the plant,[e] for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night. 11 And should not I pity Nin′eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Footnotes
- Jonah 4:6 Heb qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant
- Jonah 4:6 Heb qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant
- Jonah 4:7 Heb qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant
- Jonah 4:9 Heb qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant
- Jonah 4:10 Heb qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant