4:1And Jonah was afflicted with a great affliction, and was angry: and he prayed to the Lord, and said: "I beg, Lord, is not this my word, when I was still in my own land? 4:2For this reason I hastened to flee into Tarshish: for I know that you are a God gracious and merciful, patient and of much compassion, and forgiving concerning evil. 4:3And now, Lord, take, I beg, my life from me, because death is better for me than life." 4:4And the Lord said: "Do you think you are rightly angry?" 4:5And Jonah went out from the city, and sat opposite the east of the city: and he made for himself a little shelter there, and was sitting under it in the shade, until he might see what would happen to the city.
4:6And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it went up over Jonah's head, to be a shade over his head, and to protect him (for he had been labouring): and Jonah rejoiced over the ivy with a great joy. 4:7And God prepared a worm at the rising of dawn on the morrow: and it struck the ivy, and it withered. 4:8And when the sun had risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun struck upon Jonah's head, and he was sweltering: and he asked for his soul that he might die, and said: "It is better for me to die than to live." 4:9And the Lord said to Jonah: "Do you think you are rightly angry over the ivy?"
4:9And he said: "I am rightly angry, even unto death." 4:10And the Lord said: "You grieve over the ivy, on which you did not labour, nor did you make it grow; 4:10which in one night was born, and in one night perished: and shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know what is between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?"