Jonah 4:4

Jonah 4:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
• New International Version (NIV)But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the Lord said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Context of Jonah 4:4

2He prayed to the Lord. He said, ‘Lord, this is what I thought would happen when I was still at home. So I decided to run away to Tarshish, so that you could not be kind to the people of Nineveh. I know that you are a God who is very kind and you forgive people. You do not become angry quickly. You always show your faithful love for people. Even when you have said that you will punish people, you decide that you will not do it. 3Lord, please kill me now! I would rather die than continue to live.’ The Lord replied to Jonah, ‘You are not right to be so angry.’ 5Jonah went out of Nineveh. He built a little hut on the east side of the city. He sat in the shade of the hut. He waited to see what would happen to the city. 6The Lord God made a little plant grow there. He caused it to grow up over Jonah's head to give him shade from the hot sun. This comforted Jonah in his trouble. Jonah was very happy about the plant.

Jonah 4:4 word by word

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה הַהֵיטֵ֖ב חָ֥רָה לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Then saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• Doest thou wellיָטַבyâţab · be goodH3190
• to be angryחָרָהchârâh · to be incensedH2734

Cross-references for Jonah 4:4

• Jonah 4:9But God said to Jonah, ‘You are not right to be so angry about the plant.’ Jonah said, ‘I am right to be angry! I am so angry that I want to die.’
• Numbers 20:11Moses lifted up his arm. He hit the rock twice with his stick. Water poured out from the rock. The people and their animals drank the water.
• Psalms 106:32At Meribah springs, the Israelites made God angry. What they did there caused Moses to have trouble.
• Micah 6:3‘My people, what bad thing have I done to you?’ God asks. ‘How have I made you tired of me? Answer me.
• Matthew 20:15It is my money. I can choose what to do with it. I want to be kind to people and give them more than we agreed. Does that make you upset?” ’
• James 1:19Understand this, my Christian friends: We must all be careful to listen. We should not be too quick to speak. We should not get angry quickly.

Commentaries on Jonah 4:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Doest thou well to be angry? - לך הרה ההיטב haheitib harah lac, "Is anger good for thee?" No, anger is good for no man; but an angry preacher, minister, bishop, or prophet, is an abominable man. He who, in denouncing the word of God against sinners, joins his own passions with the Divine threatenings, is a cruel and bad man, and should not be an overseer in God's house. A surly bishop, a peevish, passionate preacher, will bring neither glory to God, nor…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4And the Lord said, Doest thou well to be angry? - oGod, being appealed to, answers the appeal. So does He often in prayer, by some secret voice, answer the inquirer. There is right anger against the sin. Moses‘ anger was right, when he broke the tables. Exodus 32:19. God secretly suggests to Jonah that his anger was not right, as our Lord instructed Luke 9:55. James and John that “theirs” was not. The question relates to the quality, not to the greatness…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The Lord responds with a rhetorical question, implying the answer is "No, of course not!" The lesson that follows shows why Jonah should not be angry (Jonah 4:6–11).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Doest thou well to be angry?--or grieved; rather as the Margin, "Art thou much angry," or "grieved?" [Fairbairn with the Septuagint and Syriac]. But English Version suits the spirit of the passage, and is quite tenable in the Hebrew [Gesenius].Read the comment

Topics related to Jonah 4:4

• Anger
• Presumption

In the dictionaries

• Intercession
• Jonah, the Book of

Commentaries on Jonah 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings