Jonah 4:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then, when Jonah had showed his affection of love and pity to the gourd, said the Lord; showed Jonah the little reason he had to concern himself for the gourd, and the great reason God had on his side in pitying and sparing Nineveh. Thou, a man, of narrow and uneven compassions, hast both had and showed pity on the gourd, a common and worthless weed. For the which thou hast not laboured; it was not the work of thy hand to set it. Neither madest it grow; nor didst thou water, and give growth to it; it was not thine. Which came up, as a mushroom, was the birth of one night, and perished, died, and was only fit for the fire when withered, in a night; with equal suddenness withered.