Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 4:9

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 .

Vid. ver. 4.

God adds this to the same question before propos'd, that Ionah might be his own Judge, and at once condemn his own Passions, justifie Gods patience and mercy, and submit himself with Satisfaction in that God had spared Nineveh.

Ionah

Passionately answers for himself, whereas ver. 4. he was silent, now he is out of all patience and quarrels highly against God, who had spared Nineveh, which Jonah thought should have been consumed as Sodom, or as the old world, but he feels in himself a heat almost as devouring as he wished to the Ninevites, thus unexpectedly crossed he [illegible: 1 letter]lies out against God himself.

If in the violence of this passion I should die (as we know some have) yet were I not to blame, thus he tacitely chargeth God with hardly using Jonah, and breaking his heart, though he had come a long Journey to deliver a message, he would fain have been excused from. So exorbitant and unreasonable is Jonahs anger.

Marginal references: Or, art thou [illegible: 1 letter]eath angry.; Or, I am [illegible: 1 word] angry.