The Book of the Prophet Jonah

But it [was] a great calamity to Jonah's eye, and it kindled [anger] in him.

And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, [was] this not my word while I was on my own land? On account of this, I fled to Tarshish before, for I knew that You [are] a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.

And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better [is] my death than my life.

And Jehovah said, Is anger rightly kindled in you?

And Jonah went out from the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made there a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he should see what would happen in the city.

But God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day, and it struck the plant, and it dried up.

And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better [is] my death than my life.

And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, [even] to death.

And Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant for which you had not labored, nor made it grow, which was the son of a night and perished the son of a night,

and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between [the] right [and the] left [hand], and many cattle?