Jonah 4:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ “And should I not pardon Ninewĕ

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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?"

Jonah 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:10

and with every living creature that is with you: of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.

Psalm 104:14

Causing the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for the service of mankind, To bring forth food from the earth,

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your right-rulings are a great deep; O יהוה, You save man and beast.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 37:37

And Sanḥ

Isaiah 7:16

“For before the Child knows to refuse evil and choose the good, the land that you dread is to be forsaken by both her sovereigns.

Jonah 1:2

“Arise, go to Ninewĕ

Jonah 3:10

And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And Elohim relented from the evil which He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.

Jonah 4:10

And יהוה  said, “You felt sorry for the plant for which you have not laboured, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.

Matthew 18:33

‘Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, as I also had compassion on you?’

Deuteronomy 1:39

‘And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it.