¹But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

¹To je Jona jako bolelo in se je jezil.

²And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

²In molil je h GOSPODU in rekel: Ah, GOSPOD, ni li to bila moja beseda, ko sem bil še v deželi svoji? Da se ognem temu, zato sem zbežal v Tarsis, kajti vedel sem, da si Bog mogočni milostljiv in poln usmiljenja, počasen za jezo in obilen v milosti in ti je žal hudega.

³Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

³In sedaj, GOSPOD, prosim, vzemi dušo mojo od mene, ker mi je bolje umreti nego živeti.

⁴Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

⁴GOSPOD pa reče: Je li prav, da se jeziš?

⁵So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

⁵In Jona je šel ven iz mesta in je sedel ob vzhodu mestu nasproti. In ondi si napravi senčnico in sedi pod njo v senci, da bi videl, kaj se zgodi z mestom.

⁶And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

⁶In GOSPOD, Bog, pripravi kloščevino in stori, da zraste nad Jonom, da mu bode senca nad glavo in ga reši slabe volje. In Jona se veseli kloščevine z velikim veseljem.

⁷But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

⁷Drugi dan pa ob zori pripravi Bog črva, ki je izpodjedel kloščevino, da je usahnila.

⁸And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁸In zgodi se ob solnčnem vzhodu, da pripravi Bog suh vzhodni veter; in solnce je peklo Jona v glavo, da je obnemogel. In želel je smrti duši svoji in rekel: Bolje mi je umreti nego živeti.

⁹And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

⁹Bog pa reče Jonu: Je li prav, da se jeziš zavoljo kloščevine? In odgovori: Prav je, da se jezim do smrti!

¹⁰Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

¹⁰GOSPOD pa reče: Tebi se smili kloščevina, za katero se nisi trudil in je nisi vzredil, ki je eno noč postala in eno noč poginila:in meni naj se ne smili Niniv, mesta velikega, v katerem je več nego stoindvajset tisoč ljudi, ki ne vedo razločka med desnico in levico svojo, in toliko živine!

¹¹And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

¹¹in meni naj se ne smili Niniv, mesta velikega, v katerem je več nego stoindvajset tisoč ljudi, ki ne vedo razločka med desnico in levico svojo, in toliko živine!