Jonah 4:9

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Summary

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.

I do well to be angry

Genesis 4:5

Job 18:4

Job 40:4

Even

Revelation 9:6

General references

Jonah 4:1

Bible References

I do well to be angry

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.

Even

So day after day she gave him no peace, for ever questioning him till his soul was troubled to death.

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

General references

But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.