Jonah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 626
The Books of the Prophets
4-8
]ON AH.
4·-—n
however, had provided a. worm,
against the advance of darkness
a few days after, and it pierced the
Gourd, so {hat it withered. And
when the sun arose GOD prepared
a rushing east wi11d;—-and the sun
struck the head of jonah, and he
fainted, and wished himself to die,
It is better for me
to die than live}
The EvBR·L1v1N<;,_ however, said
Is it well for you to be grieved for the Gourd? ' lt is well for me to be grieved to death I _ But the Evnx-1.1vmG answered,
‘You are sorry for the Gourd that you did not cultivate, nor caused to grow. It was the product of a ’` Iherefore, should not I have pity
for Ninevah,—that Great City, which has in it more than ten times twelve thousand of mankind who do not know their right hand from their left, besides multitudes of animals? ’
END OF 1'HE BOOK OF THE PROPHET IONAH;
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