9. But God said to him, “What right have you to be angry about the plant?”Jonah replied, “I have every right to be angry — angry enough to die!”
10. The Lord said to him, “This plant grew up in one night and disappeared the next; you didn't do anything for it, and you didn't make it grow — yet you feel sorry for it!
11. How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city. After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent children in it, as well as many animals!”