But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Bible students have imagined all kinds of reasons for the anger of Jonah, and it is surely possible that there were a number of different considerations making up a complex basis for it.  Certainly, this amazing anger on Jonah's part is one of the strangest things in the Bible; and yet, we must believe that it was grounded in very human and very understandable attitudes in Jonah himself.  "Here is absolutely the most amazing reaction to spiritual awakening we can find anywhere.  Of all people, one would think the preacher would be happy about converts!"[1]