Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
The book closes without giving us Jonah’s response, but that is not the point of the book. Its point is the answer to the Lord’s question in Jonah 4:11 that every reader must give. Yes, God should have compassion on the hopeless Ninevites, and we should have compassion on people like them too (cf. Luke 15:25-32; Matthew 20:1-16). Only two books in the Bible end with questions, and they both have to do with Nineveh. Jonah ends with a question about God’s pity for Nineveh, and Nahum ends with a question about God’s punishment of Nineveh. [Note: Wiersbe, p. 386.] 