Jonah 4:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.”

Cross References

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.

Job 18:4

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

Job 36:18

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

Job 5:2

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

Jonah 4:1

But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry.

Jonah 4:10

Then the Lord said, “You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night.

Jonah 4:8

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

Matthew 26:38

Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

Revelation 9:6

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

Judges 16:16

Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death.