Jonah 4:7

The stress on God’s sovereignty continues. God had provided (Heb. manah, to appoint, provide, or prepare) a storm, a fish, a plant, and now a worm to fulfill His purpose. A different Hebrew word occurs in Jonah 1:4 describing the storm. He would provide a wind (Jonah 4:8). Clearly God was manipulating Jonah’s circumstances to teach him something. He uses large things such as the fish and small things like the worm. There may be some significance in the chiastic arrangement of the things that God provided beginning and ending with natural forces, then animals, with a vegetable (that made Jonah happy) in the middle.