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Jonah 4:9
Jonah 4:9 is verse 9 of Jonah chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
King James Version
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.
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 4:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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!”
10 But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 4:5but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:6“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Genesis 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 4:9And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4:10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 4:13But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Job 40:5I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
Judges 16:16Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Matthew 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
2 Corinthians 7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.