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Jonah 4:9

World English Bible

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

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Jonah 4:9 in other translations

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.

Jonah 4:9 · American Standard Version

Jonah 4:9 in context

  1. 7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
  2. 8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  3. 9God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
    He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
  4. 10Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
  5. 11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”