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Jonah 4:4–10

And Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”h

And Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, waiting to seei what would happen with the city. And Yahweh God appointed a plant,j and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah was very gladk about the plant. So God appointed a worm at daybreakl the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered. And when the sun rose,m 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 dien and said, “My death is better than my life!” So God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angryo about the plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry enough to die!”p

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!q

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