And Elohim said to Yonah, “Have you rightly become displeased over the plant?” And he said, “I have rightly become displeased, even to death!”
And Aḥ
You who tear yourself to pieces in displeasure – would the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or the rock move from its place?
Beware, that rage does not entice you to scoffing. And do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple.
But it greatly displeased Yonah, and he was grieved.
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.
And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Then He said to them, “My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
For sadness according to Elohim works repentance to deliverance, not to be regretted, but the sadness of the world works death.
And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them.
And it came to be, when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, so that his being was wearied to death,