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?"
"Their inability to discern ’their right hand from their left’ must refer to their moral ignorance. Though responsible for their evil deeds and subject to divine judgment (see Jonah 1:2), the Ninevites did not have the advantage of special divine revelation concerning the moral will of God. Morally and ethically speaking they were like children." [Note: Chisholm, Handbook on . . ., p. 416. Cf. Wiseman, "Jonah’s Nineveh," pp. 39-40.] 