Jonah 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

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  • Gen 4:5-9 : 5 and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen. 6 And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen? 7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.' 8 And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, ``Let us go into the field;'' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him. 9 And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where `is' Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?' 10 And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground; 11 and now, cursed `art' thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand; 12 when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.' 13 And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne; 14 lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'
  • Judg 16:16 : 16 And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
  • Job 18:4 : 4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth. 5 Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

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  • Jonah 4:1-8
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    90%

    1And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

    2and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

    3And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

    4And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'

    5And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

    6And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd `with' great joy.

    7And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

    8And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

  • Jonah 4:10-11
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    10And Jehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

    11and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and much cattle!'

  • Jonah 1:14-15
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    14And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

    15And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

  • Jonah 1:1-8
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    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

    3And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down `to' Joppa, and findeth a ship going `to' Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

    4And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

    5and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.

    6And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

    7And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil `is' on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

    8And they say unto him, `Declare to us, we pray thee, on what account this evil `is' on us? what `is' thine occupation, and whence comest thou? what `is' thy country, seeing thou art not of this people?'

  • Jonah 3:4
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    4And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

  • Jonah 2:10
    68%

    10And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

  • Gen 4:6
    68%

    6And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

  • Jonah 2:1
    68%

    1And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

  • Jonah 3:1-2
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    67%

    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

  • Jonah 1:11
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    11And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

  • Jonah 1:17
    67%

    17And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 3:9
    67%

    9Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'

  • Job 18:4
    67%

    4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

  • Job 42:7
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    7And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

  • Jer 4:8
    66%

    8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

  • 1 Sam 14:44
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    44And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.'

  • Ps 85:5
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    5To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

  • Eph 4:26
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    26be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

  • Jer 3:5
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    5Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    9Say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? `In' all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.

    10And lo, the planted thing -- doth it prosper? When come against it doth the east wind, Doth it not utterly wither? On the furrows of its springing it withereth.'

  • Ps 37:8
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    8Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.

  • Isa 57:17
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    17For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

  • 2 Sam 12:5
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    5And the anger of David burneth against the man exceedingly, and he saith unto Nathan, `Jehovah liveth, surely a son of death `is' the man who is doing this,

  • Isa 27:4
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    4Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

  • Amos 7:3
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    3Jehovah hath repented of this, `It shall not be,' said Jehovah.

  • Judg 9:11
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    11And the fig saith to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

  • Ps 7:11
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    11God `is' a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.

  • Job 21:4
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    4I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

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    8even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you -- to destroy you.

  • Gen 6:6
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    6and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.