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The book ends with God’s question comparing Jonah’s pity for the plant with God’s concern for Nineveh. God mentions the city’s many people who “do not know their right hand from their left,” and also “much cattle” Jonah 4:10–11. The story closes without recording Jonah’s reply Jonah 4:11.
10Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
11Shouldn`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?"