InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
Yna 4 V1 V2 V3 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Jonah was upset that the LORD had not destroyed the people of Nineveh, and he argued with the LORD about it. The LORD taught Jonah that Jonah, too, should have compassion on the people of Nineveh. The LORD caused a plant to grow to shelter Jonah from the sun and then sent a worm to destroy it. When Jonah was upset about the plant being destroyed, the LORD told him that if he could be concerned about a mere plant, it was more fitting that the LORD should be concerned about people—as people are more important to him than plants. This was to show Jonah how much the LORD cared about people—even the enemies of the Israelites.
But the LORD replied,
But Yahweh answered him,
“Have you any right to be angry?”
“Are you(sing) right to be angry?”
“What right do you(sing) have to be angry?”
“You(sing) have no right to be angry.”
Have you any right to be angry?: God replied to Jonah’s protest and request to die with a rhetorical question. God was saying that Jonah had no right to be angry about the outcome of the situation or the way the LORD had acted.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
הַהֵיטֵ֖ב חָ֥רָה לָֽךְ
rightly,(do_well)? it_glowed/burnt to/for=you(fs)
The phrase it burns to you is an idiom that speaks of Jonah’s anger as if it were a fire burning inside him. If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use an idiom from your language that does have this meaning or state the meaning plainly. See how you translated it in 4:1. Alternate translation: [is it right for you to be angry about this]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
הַהֵיטֵ֖ב חָ֥רָה לָֽךְ
rightly,(do_well)? it_glowed/burnt to/for=you(fs)
The reason for Jonah’s anger can be made explicit. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [Is it right for you to be angry that I did not destroy Nineveh]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
הַהֵיטֵ֖ב חָ֥רָה לָֽךְ
rightly,(do_well)? it_glowed/burnt to/for=you(fs)
Yahweh is using the question form to teach Jonah that he is not right to be angry. If you would not use the question form for this purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: [It is not right that it burns to you!]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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