Jonah 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Jonah 4:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Psalms 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms 30:6-7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. …
Psalms 90:5-6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

Jonah persists here in his discontent; for the beginning of strife both with God and man is as the letting forth of waters, the breach grows wider and wider, and, when passion gets head, bad is made worse; it should therefore be silenced and suppressed at first. We have here, I. Jonah’s sullen expectation of the fate of Nineveh. We may suppose that the Ninevites, giving credit to the message he br…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. a worm--of a particular kind, deadly to the ricinus. A small worm at the root destroys a large gourd. So it takes but little to make our creature comforts wither. It should silence discontent to remember, that when our gourd is gone, our God is not gone. the next day--after Jonah was so “exceeding glad” (compare Psa 80:7).