Jonah 4:9

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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.

and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

then saith he to them, 'Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;