Jonah 4:9 BSB — MannaFest

Jonah 4:9

Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

6 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 4 (420)

"And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death." LXX: 'and the Lord God said to Jonah, are you so afflicted for a gourd? He replied, 'I am very afflicted even to the point of death'. When he was asked about the repentance of the inhabitants of Nineveh and the safety of the city of the gentiles, 'do you well to be angry?', the prophet replied nothing, yet justified God's question by his silence.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And God said to Jonah, dost thou well to be angry for the gourd?.... Or, "art thou very angry for it?" as the Targum: no mention is made of the blustering wind and scorching sun, because the gourd or plant raised up over him would have protected him from the injuries of both, had it continued; and it was for the loss of that that Jonah was so displeased, and in such a passion.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Jonah had said, I do well to be angry, but he could not prove it. God says and proves it, I do well to be merciful; and it is a great encouragement to poor sinners to hope that they shall find mercy with him, that he is so ready to justify himself in showing mercy and to triumph in those whom he makes the monuments of it, against those whose eye is evil because his is good.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Sin and death are two very dreadful things, yet Jonah, in his heat, makes light of them both. He has so little regard for God as to fly in the face of his authority, and to say that he did well in that which God said was ill done. Passion often over-rules conscience, and forces it, when it is appealed to, to give a false judgment, as Jonah here did.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Doest thou well to be angry? - o “See again how Almighty God, out of His boundless lovingkindness, with the yearning tenderness of a father, almost disporteth with the guileless souls of the saints! The palm-christ shades him: the prophet rejoices in it exceedingly. Then, in God’s Providence, the caterpillar attacks it, the burning East wind smites it, showing at the same time how very necessary the relief of its shade, that the prophet might be the more grieved, when deprived of such a good. He asketh him skillfully, was he very grieved? and that for a shrub?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֱלֹהִים֙	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יוֹנָ֔ה	yo.Nah	Jonah	H3124 →
הַהֵיטֵ֥ב	ha.hei.Tev	¿ rightly <do well>	H3190 →
חָרָֽה־	cha.rah-	does it burn	H2734 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	to <the> you
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַקִּֽיקָי֑וֹן	ha.ki.ka.Yon	the plant	H7021 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הֵיטֵ֥ב	hei.Tev	rightly <do well>	H3190 →
חָֽרָה־	cha.rah-	it burns	H2734 →
לִ֖י	li	to <the> me
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
מָֽוֶת׃	Ma.vet	death	H4194 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 5:2
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 7:9
  Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Proverbs 12:16
  A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
- 1 Samuel 18:8–9
  And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
- Psalms 107:17
  Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Through
Judges 16:16
Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
leads to
- Proverbs 7:21–23
  With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
- Luke 18:5
  yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
Through
Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
leads to
- Job 14:18
  But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
- Job 16:9
  His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Jonah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Jonah