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10 But Yahweh said, “You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. It grew up in a night and it perished in a night![a] 11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are[b] more than one hundred and twenty thousand[c] people who do not know right from left,[d] plus many animals?”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:10 Literally “Which was a son of a night and as a son of a night it perished”
  2. Jonah 4:11 Literally “which there are in it”
  3. Jonah 4:11 Literally “than two ten myriad” (12 x 10,000)
  4. Jonah 4:11 hand” is often supplied, but it is not clear just what deficiency is meant by this expression, which occurs only here in biblical Hebrew

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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