Jonah 4:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? - (note, Jonah 4:4).

I do well to be angry, even unto death - `I am very much grieved, even to death' (Fairbairn). So the Antitype (Matthew 26:38, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death"). But how different were the feelings and motives of the type and Antitype. Jonah's grief was the fruit of his own inherent sin: Christ's was the fruit of our imputed sin.

Jonah 4:9

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.