10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night,

11 And should [a]not I spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are sixscore thousand persons, that [b]cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:11 Thus God mercifully reproveth him which would pity himself, and this gourd, and yet would restrain God to show his compassion to so many thousand people.
  2. Jonah 4:11 Meaning, that they were children and infants.

10 But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern(A) for the great city of Nineveh,(B) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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