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Jonah 4:9

Jonah 4:9
And 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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And God said to Jonah, dost thou well to be angry for the gourd?.... Or, "art thou very angry for it?" as the Targum: no mention is made of the blustering wind and scorching sun, because the gourd or…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Doest thou well to be angry? - o “See again how Almighty God, out of His boundless lovingkindness, with the yearning tenderness of a father, almost disporteth with the guileless souls of the saints!…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I do well to be angry, even unto death - Many persons suppose that the gifts of prophecy and working miracles are the highest that can be conferred on man; but they are widely mistaken, for the gifts…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

even unto death "Art thou rightly angry for the palmchrist? I am rightly angry, (and that) unto death:" i. e. "my anger is so great that it well-nigh kills me, and even in that excess it is justified…