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Jonah 4:8-10
Lexham English Bible
Jonah 4:8-10
Lexham English Bible
8 And when the sun rose,[a] 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[b] and said, “My death is better than my life!” 9 So God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry[c] about the plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry enough to die!”[d]
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![e]
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- Jonah 4:8 Literally “and it happened at the rising of the sun”
- Jonah 4:8 Literally “and he asked his soul to die”
- Jonah 4:9 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)
- Jonah 4:9 Literally “Rightfully it is hot for me until death”
- Jonah 4:10 Literally “Which was a son of a night and as a son of a night it perished”
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