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.|


In Context

6 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, |It is better for me to die than to live.|

9 God 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.|

10 Yahweh said, |You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

11 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?|

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 American Standard 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 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 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.