Jonah 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And 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.

Jonah 4:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 40:4-5
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. …
Genesis 4:5-14
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. …
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Judges 16:16
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
Job 18:4
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

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. 9)

9. (See on Jon 4:4). I do well to be angry, even unto death--“I am very much grieved, even to death” [Fairbairn]. So the Antitype (Mt 26:38).