Jonah 4:1
Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
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ASV
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
KJV
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
"But it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry. [And he prayed unto the LORD, and said]" LXX: 'Jonah was saddened by a great sadness, and he was confounded. And he prayed to the Lord, and he said'. Seeing the crowd of gentiles enter [Rom. 11:25], and that fulfils what is written in Deuteronomy: "they annoyed me with these gods who are not gods, so I will annoy them with a people that is not one; I shall anger them like a foolish nation" [Deut. 32:21].
(3.) That he had so little affection for men as to be displeased and very angry at the conversion of the Ninevites and their reception into the divine favour. This was the sin of the scribes and Pharisees, who murmured at our Saviour because he entertained publicans and sinners; but is our eye evil because his is good?
And Jonah was displeased exceedingly - It was an untempered zeal. The prophet himself records it as such, and how he was reproved for it. He would, like many of us, govern God’s world better than God Himself. Short-sighted and presumptuous! Yet not more short-sighted than those who, in fact, quarrel with God’s Providence, the existence of evil, the baffling of good, “the prison walls of obstacles and trials,” in what we would do for God’s glory. What is all discontent, but anger with God?
Jonah was grieved because Nineveh's preservation, after his denunciation, made him seem a false prophet [CALVIN]. But it would make Jonah a demon, not a man, to have preferred the destruction of six hundred thousand men rather than that his prophecy should be set aside through God's mercy triumphing over judgment.
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Luke 7:39When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she…
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Jonah 4:4But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
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Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
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Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
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Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
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For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He…
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
