Jonah 4:9

English Standard Version 2016

But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”

Cross References

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Judges 16:16

And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Matthew 26:38

Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”

Job 36:18

Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

Jonah 4:1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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.

1 Kings 21:4

And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.