| Jonah 4:4 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?" (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The LORD asked, "What right do you have to be angry?"(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| ASV: | And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| BBE: | And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry? |
| DBY: | And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| ERV: | And the LORD said, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| JPS: | And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?' |
| WBS: | Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| WEB: | Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" |
| YLT: | And Jehovah saith, 'Is doing good displeasing to thee?' |
| Jonah 4:4 Cross References |
| XREF: | Jonah 4:3 "Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life."
Jonah 4:5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 4:4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be {d} angry?
(d) Will you judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not? |
| MHC: | 4:1-4 What all the saints make matter of joy and praise, Jonah makes the subject of reflection upon God; as if showing mercy were an imperfection of the Divine nature, which is the greatest glory of it. It is to his sparing, pardoning mercy, we all owe it that we are out of hell. He wishes for death: this was the language of folly, passion, and strong corruption. There appeared in Jonah remains of a proud, uncharitable spirit; and that he neither expected nor desired the welfare of the Ninevites, but had only come to declare and witness their destruction. He was not duly humbled for his own sins, and was not willing to trust the Lord with his credit and safety. In this frame of mind, he overlooked the good of which he had been an instrument, and the glory of the Divine mercy. We should often ask ourselves, Is it well to say thus, to do thus? Can I justify it? Do I well to be so soon angry, so often angry, so long angry, and to give others ill language in my anger? Do I well to be angry at the mercy of God to repenting sinners? That was Jonah's crime. Do we do well to be angry at that which is for the glory of God, and the advancement of his kingdom? Let the conversion of sinners, which is the joy of heaven, be our joy, and never our grief. |
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