9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.


In Context

6 And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

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?

Jonah 4:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:9But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?" "I do," he said. "I am angry enough to die."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9God said to Jonah, |Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?| He said, |I am right to be angry, even to death.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And God saith unto Jonah: 'Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, 'To do good is displeasing to me — unto death.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.