◄ Jonah 4:4 {3} ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD answered, "What right do you have to be angry?"

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD replied, "What right do you have to be angry?"

New American Bible
But the LORD asked, “Are you right to be angry?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:9 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Numbers 20:11,12,24 And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank, . . .

Psalm 106:32,33 They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: . . .

Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

James 1:19,20 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. . . .

Context
Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
…3And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil. 4And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.5And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?…
Cross References
Genesis 4:6
And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?

Job 36:18
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

Jonah 4:1
And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

Jonah 4:3
And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Jonah 4:5
And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?

Jonah 4:3
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