Jonah 4:7
hBut God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
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Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
by the same power which caused the gourd suddenly, and to Jonah’s great joy, to spring, grow, and spread itself as a canopy,
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what, is not said, some contemptible grub that was not seen by Jonah; which early next morning, i.e. by break of day, bit the root, so that the whole gourd suddenly withered.