Jonah 4:9 (KJV)

Passage

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Nearby Context

Jonah 4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Jonah 4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "said", "jonah", "doest", "thou", "well", "angry", and "gourd". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "said" and "jonah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "And it came to pass when the..." into verse 10's "Then said the LORD Thou hast had...", so "said" and "jonah" belong inside that flow. In Jonah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "said" and "jonah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.