Jonah 4:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons not [yet old enough to] know their right hand from their left, and also many cattle [not accountable for sin]?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Yet for my part, can’t I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred twenty thousand people who can’t tell their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men, who do not know the difference between their right and their left, and many beasts?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?

Jonah 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:10

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.

Psalm 104:14

Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,

Psalm 36:6

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Isaiah 37:37

Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nineveh.

Isaiah 7:16

For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.

Jonah 1:2

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.

Jonah 4:10

And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.

Matthew 18:33

and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’

Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.