Jonah 4

¹ Yet it is evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it is hot with him. ² And he is praying to Yahweh and saying, "Oh Yahweh! Was not this my word while still I came to be on my own ground? Therefore I forestalled by running away to Tharshish, for I know that You are a gracious El, and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and regretting concerning the evil. ³ And now, Yahweh, take, I pray, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life." ⁴ Then Yahweh is saying to Jonah, Is it good for you to be hot? ⁵ And Jonah is faring forth from the city, and he is sitting east of the city. And he is making for himself there a booth, and he is sitting under it in the shade till he is seeing what will come to be in the city. ⁶ Then Yahweh Elohim is assigning a gourd, and it is coming up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to rescue him from his evil. And Jonah is rejoicing over the gourd, with great rejoicing. ⁷ And the Elohim is assigning a worm at the ascending of the dawn of the morrow, and it is smiting the gourd, and it is drying up. ⁸ And it is coming as the sun rises, that Elohim is assigning a hot east wind, and the sun is smiting on the head of Jonah, and he is swooning. And he is asking for his soul to die and is saying, "Better is my death than my life." ⁹ Then Elohim is saying to Jonah, "Is it good for you to be hot over the gourd? And he is saying, "It is good for me to be hot unto death." ¹⁰ And Yahweh is saying, You commiserate over the gourd, for which you toil not, neither are you making it grow. It came to be one night old, and it perished one night old. ¹¹ And I, shall I not commiserate over Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand human beings who do not know their right from their left, and many beasts?"