Jonah 4
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
1這事 約拿 大大不悅，且甚發怒，
2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'I pray Thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest Thee of the evil.
2就禱告耶和華說：「耶和華啊，我在本國的時候豈不是這樣說嗎？我知道你是有恩典、有憐憫的上帝，不輕易發怒，有豐盛的慈愛，並且後悔不降所說的災，所以我急速逃往 他施 去。
3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'
3耶和華啊，現在求你取我的命吧！因為我死了比活着還好。」
4And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'
4耶和華說：「你這樣發怒合乎理嗎？」
5Then 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.
5於是 約拿 出城，坐在城的東邊，在那裏為自己搭了一座棚，坐在棚的蔭下，要看看那城究竟如何。
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 evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
6耶和華上帝安排一棵蓖麻，使其發生高過 約拿 ，影兒遮蓋他的頭，救他脫離苦楚； 約拿 因這棵蓖麻大大喜樂。
7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
7次日黎明，上帝卻安排一條蟲子咬這蓖麻，以致枯槁。
8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'
8日頭出來的時候，上帝安排炎熱的東風，日頭曝曬 約拿 的頭，使他發昏，他就為自己求死，說：「我死了比活着還好！」
9And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'
9上帝對 約拿 說：「你因這棵蓖麻發怒合乎理嗎？」他說：「我發怒以至於死，都合乎理！」
10And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night;
10耶和華說：「這蓖麻不是你栽種的，也不是你培養的；一夜發生，一夜乾死，你尚且愛惜；
11and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?'
11何況這 尼尼微 大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二萬多人，並有許多牲畜，我豈能不愛惜呢？」
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