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Jonah Is Angry at Yahweh’s Compassion
4 And this[fn]was greatly displeasing[fn] to Jonah, andhe became furious.[fn] 2 And he prayed to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, was this not what I said[fn] while I was in my homeland? ThereforeI originally fled[fn] to Tarshish, because I knew that youare a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love,[fn] and one who relents concerning calamity.[fn] 3 And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!” 4 And Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”[fn]
5 And Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, waiting to see[fn] what would happen with the city. 6 And Yahweh God appointed a plant,[fn] and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonahwas very glad[fn] about the plant. 7 So God appointed a worm at daybreak[fn] the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered. 8 And when the sun rose,[fn] God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head and he grew faint.And he asked that he could die[fn] and said, “My deathis better than my life!” 9 So God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry[fn] about the plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry enough to die!”[fn]
10 But Yahweh said, “You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. It grew up in a night and it perished in a night![fn] 11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are[fn] morethan one hundred and twenty thousand[fn] people who do not know right from left,[fn] plus many animals?”
?:? Hebrew “it”
?:? Literally “was displeasing with great displeasure”
?:? Literally “it was hot for him”
?:? Literally “my word”
?:? Literally “I did the first time to flee”
?:? Literally “and great of steadfast love”
?:? That is, calamity sent by God as judgment
?:? Literally “Rightfully is it hot for you”; some take this to mean “Are you so very angry?” (Targum Jonah 4:4; see also JPS, NEB, NET)
?:? Literally “until he would see”
?:? Probably a castor oil plant, though some have suggested some type of gourd plant
?:? Literally “was glad with great joy”
?:? Literally “at the coming up of the dawn”
?:? Literally “and it happened at the rising of the sun”
?:? Literally “and he asked his soul to die”
?:? Literally “rightfully is it hot for you”; some take this to mean “Are you so very angry?” (Targum Jonah 4:4; see also JPS, NEB, NET)
?:? Literally “Rightfully it is hot for me until death”
?:? Literally “Which was a son of a night and as a son of a night it perished”
?:? Literally “which there are in it”
?:? Literally “than two ten myriad” (12 x 10,000)
?:? “hand” is often supplied, but it is not clear just what deficiency is meant by this expression, which occurs only here in biblical Hebrew