4:9b

Have you any right to be angry about the plant?: Once again God scolded Jonah for his anger. This is another rhetorical question and implied that Jonah did not have the right to be angry.

4:9c

“I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”: Jonah, however, insisted that he was indeed right to be angry because the plant had withered.

angry enough to die!: This phrase can have two meanings: First, it means that Jonah was so angry that he actually preferred death to life. And secondly, it is an idiom to show that Jonah was very angry.

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