ヨナ書 4:9-10 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:8-11

§ 4. Jonah grieves bitterly for the loss of the gourd; and God takes occasion from this to point out the prophet's inconsistency and pitilessness in murmuring against the mercy shown to Nineveh with its multitude of inhabitants. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:9

God said. Keil and others have noted the variety in the use of the names of God in this passage ( Jonah 4:6-9 ). The production of the gourd is attributed to Jehovah-Elohim ( Jonah 4:6 ), a composite name, which serves to mark the transition from Jehovah in Jonah 4:4 to Elohim in Jonah 4:7 and Jonah 4:8 . Jehovah, who replies to the prophet's complaint ( Jonah 4:4 ), prepares the plant as Elohim the Creator, and the worm as ha-Elohim the personal God. Elohim, the Ruler of nature,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:9-11

God reasoning with man. "And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?" etc. The whole Book of Jonah develops at least the following truths: 1 . That the regard of Heaven, even under the old dispensation, was not confined to the Jews. Jonah was sent to Nineveh, a city far away from Judea, whose population had neither kinship nor sympathy with the Jewish people. It is represented as a bloody city, full of lies and robbery, its ferocious violence to captives is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10

The Lord. Jehovah. closing the story, and driving home the lesson with unanswerable force, the prophet himself being the judge. Thou hast had pity; thou on thy part hast spared; Septuagint, σὺ ἐφείσω . For the which thou hast not laboured; Septuagint, ὑπὲρ ἦς οὐκ ἐκακοπάθησας ἐπ αὐτήν , "for which thou sufferedst no evil." The more trouble a thing costs us, the more we regard it, as a mother loves her sickly child best. Neither madest it grow. As God had made... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10-11

The breadth of the Divine piety. The close of this very remarkable book is deserving of attention and admiration, as evidently gathering up and exhibiting the purpose for which this composition was designed. Of all things apprehensible by us nothing is equal in interest to the character of the Supreme Ruler and Lord. This is depicted in this closing passage of the narrative and prophecy in the most attractive, encouraging, and glorious colours. 1. GOD 'S PITY CONTRASTS WITH ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10-11

An argument from human pity to Divine mercy. Jonah is met on his own ground. From his human compassion comes the irresistible enforcement of the argument for the Divine mercy. Mark the contrasts. I. PITY ON THE GOURD ; PITY ON NINEVEH . Useful had been the gourd to Jonah. It had made life tolerable; it had gladdened him. He had saddened to see it wither, sorrowed to see it dead. He had pity on it; his pity would have spared it. Nor was he wrong. It is well to be... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:9

Doest thou well to be angry? - o “See again how Almighty God, out of His boundless lovingkindness, with the yearning tenderness of a father, almost disporteth with the guileless souls of the saints! The palm-christ shades him: the prophet rejoices in it exceedingly. Then, in God’s Providence, the caterpillar attacks it, the burning East wind smites it, showing at the same time how very necessary the relief of its shade, that the prophet might be the more grieved, when deprived of such a good.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:10

Thou hadst pity on the palm-christ - In the feeling of our common mortality, the soul cannot but yearn over decay. Even a drooping flower is sad to look on, so beautiful, so frail. It belongs to this passing world, where nothing lovely abides, all things beautiful hasten to cease to be. The natural God-implanted feeling is the germ of the spiritual. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 4:4-9

Jonah 4:4-9. Doest thou well to be angry? What a mild reproof was this from God, for such a passionate behaviour as Jonah manifested! Here the prophet experienced that Jehovah was a gracious God, merciful, and slow to anger. Here we learn by the highest example, that of God himself, how mild and gentle we ought to be if we would be like him, even to those who carry themselves toward us in the most unreasonable and unjustifiable manner. So Jonah went out of the city The words should... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 4:10

Jonah 4:10. Then said the Lord Jonah having thus showed his love and pity for the gourd, God proceeds to judge him out of his own mouth; Thou hast had pity on the gourd, &c. Thou deplorest the loss of the gourd, and thinkest it a severe misfortune to thee, and hard that thou shouldest be deprived of it, though it was not made by thee, came up without any labour of thine, and was by its nature of a short duration: if this is the case with thee in regard to a mean, short-lived plant,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:8-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:9-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 4:10-11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 4:4-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 4:10

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