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Jonah 4:4
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The Lord asked, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
The LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
Then said the Lord , Doest thou well to be angry?
And the Lord said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
But the LORD said, "Do you have a good reason to be angry?"
Then the Lord said, "Do you think it is right for you to be angry?"
Then the LORD said, "Do you have a good reason to be angry?"
The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"
And Yahweh said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"
But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"
The Lord replied, "What right do you have to be angry?"
Adonai asked, "Is it right for you to be so angry?"
And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Then the Lord said, "Do you think it is right for you to be angry?"
Then the LORD said to him, Are you very sorrowful?
The Lord answered, "What right do you have to be angry?"
And Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
And Jehovah said, Is anger rightly kindled in you?
And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'
Then saide the Lord, Doest thou wel to be angry?
And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved?
And the LORD said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
And the Lord seide, Gessist thou, whether thou art wel wrooth?
And Yahweh said, Do you well to be angry?
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
The Lord said, "Are you really so very angry?"
Then the LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
The Lord replied, "Is it right for you to be angry about this?"
And the Lord said, "Have you any reason to be angry?"
And the Lord said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
Then said Yahweh, Art thou rightly angry?
And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?
And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'
Then sayde the LORDE: art thou so angrie?
God said, "What do you have to be angry about?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Doest thou well to be angry: or, Art thou greatly angry, Jonah 4:9, Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:12, Numbers 20:24, Psalms 106:32, Psalms 106:33, Micah 6:3, Matthew 20:15, James 1:19, James 1:20
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 13:11 - displeased Luke 15:28 - therefore Galatians 2:11 - because James 2:8 - ye do James 2:19 - thou doest 3 John 1:6 - do well
Cross-References
Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
Kain also knewe his wife, which conceiued and bare Henoch: and he built a citie, and called the name of the citie by ye name of his sonne, Henoch.
And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.
Also when the sunne went downe, there was a darkenes: & behold, a smoking fornace, and a firebrand, which went betweene those pieces.
Then thou shalt set apart vnto the Lorde all that first openeth the wombe: also euery thing that first doeth open the wombe, and commeth forth of thy beast: the males shalbe the Lordes.
And there came a fire out from the Lord and consumed vpon the Altar the burnt offring and the fatte: which when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.
But there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.
All the fat of the oyle, and all the fat of the wine, and of the wheate, which they shal offer vnto the Lord for their first fruites, I haue giuen them vnto thee.
But the first borne of a kowe, or the first borne of a sheepe, or the first borne of a goate shalt thou not redeeme: for they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood at the altar, and thou shalt burne their fat: it is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said the Lord, dost thou well to be angry?] A mild and gentle reproof this; which shows him to be a God gracious and merciful, and slow to anger; he might have answered Jonah's passionate wish, and struck him dead at once, as Ananias and Sapphira were; but he only puts this question, and leaves it with him to consider of. Some render it, "is doing good displeasing to thee?" y art thou angry at that, because I do good to whom I will? so R. Japhet, as Aben Ezra observes, though he disapproves of it: according to this the sense is, is doing good to the Ninevites, showing mercy to them upon their repentance, such an eyesore to thee? is thine eye evil, because mine is good? so the Scribes and Pharisees indeed were displeased with Christ for conversing with publicans and sinners, which was for the good of their souls; and the elder brother was angry with his father for receiving the prodigal; and of the same cast Jonah seems to be, at least at this time, being under the power of his corruptions. There seems to be an emphasis upon the word "thou"; dost "thou" well to be angry? what, "thou", a creature, be angry with his Creator; a worm, a potsherd of the earth, with the God of heaven and earth? what, "thou", that hast received mercy thyself in such an extraordinary manner, and so lately, and be angry at mercy shown to others? what, "thou", a prophet of the Lord, that should have at heart the good of immortal souls, and be displeased that thy ministry has been the means of the conversion and repentance of so many thousands? is there any just cause for all this anger? no, it is a causeless one; and this is put to the conscience of Jonah; he himself is made judge in his own cause; and it looks as if, upon self-reflection and reconsideration, when his passions cooled and subsided, that he was self-convicted and self-condemned, since no answer is returned. The Targum is,
"art thou exceeding angry?''
and so other interpreters, Jewish and Christian z, understand it of the vehemency of his anger.
y ההיטב חרה לך "num benefacere ira est tibi?" Montanus. z "Nonne vehemens ira est tibi?" Pagninus; "numquid vehementer indignaris, multumne (valdene) iratus est?" Vatablus; so Kimchi and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 47. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the Lord said, Doest thou well to be angry? - o God, 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 of his anger. It was not the vehemence of his passionate desire for Israel, which God reproves, but that it was turned against the Ninevites . “What the Lord says to Jonah, he says to all, who in their office of the cure of souls are angry. They must, as to this same anger, be recalled into themselves, to regard the cause or object of their anger, and weigh warily and attentively whether they “do well to be angry.” For if they are angry, not with men but with the sins of men, if they hate and persecute, not men, but the vices of men, they are rightly angry, their zeal is good. But if they are angry, not with sins but with men, if they hate, not vices but men, they are angered amiss, their zeal is bad. This then which was said to one, is to be watchfully looked to and decided by all, ‘Doest thou well to be angry? ‘“
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jonah 4:4. Doest thou well to be angry? — ההיטב הרה לך 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 good to man. Dr. Taylor renders the clause, "Art thou very much grieved?" A man may be very much grieved that a sinner is lost; but who but he who is of a fiendish nature will be grieved because God's mercy triumphs over judgment?
