In Jonah 4:4, God asks the same question earlier, reinforcing the theme of Jonah's unjustified anger.

Jonah 4:1 first records Jonah's anger; here he defends it as right, deepening the portrait of his stubbornness.

In Genesis 4:5-14, God similarly questions Cain's anger, providing a parallel to God's confrontation with Jonah here.

In Judges 16:16, Samson's soul is 'vexed to death' by nagging — a similar expression of mortal frustration to Jonah's anger.

In Matthew 26:38, Jesus is sorrowful unto death yet submits to the Father — opposite to Jonah's angry defiance unto death.

In Job 40:5, Job humbly ceases his complaint before God — opposite of Jonah's defiant insistence on being angry even to death.

In Exodus 16:3, Israel wishes they had died in Egypt rather than trust God — mirrors Jonah's death-wish from anger at God's mercy.

Luke 15:28 shows the older brother angry at grace, mirroring Jonah's anger at God's mercy to repentant Nineveh.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 warns that anger lodges in fools, contrasting Jonah's self-justified anger as foolish.

Psalm 37:8 commands refraining from anger, directly opposing Jonah's insistence that his anger is justified.

In Numbers 11:15, Moses pleads for God to kill him due to overwhelming burden — similar to Jonah's desire to die from anger.

In Job 40:4, Job humbly responds to God, contrasting with Jonah's defiant anger here.

Lamentations 3:39 questions why a man should complain about his punishment, contrasting Jonah's complaint over God's mercy.

Luke 11:32 recalls Nineveh's repentance, highlighting the irony of Jonah's anger at the very success of his mission.

2 Corinthians 7:10 contrasts godly sorrow with worldly sorrow that brings death — Jonah's angry death-wish exemplifies the destructive kind.

Job 5:2 warns that wrath kills the foolish — Jonah's angry desire for death exemplifies this principle.

In 1 Kings 21:4, Ahab's sullen anger over a denied desire parallels Jonah's anger over the plant's death — both examples of selfish frustration.

In Job 18:4, Bildad questions Job's self-destructive anger, paralleling God questioning Jonah's anger here.