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Faith's Internal Battle
Commentators explain that Jonah's words reveal a deep internal struggle. He genuinely felt "cast out" and abandoned by God, a feeling one scholar calls the "judgment of the flesh." Yet, his decision to "look again" is a powerful act of faith pushing back against despair. This verse models how true faith often involves wrestling with feelings of hopelessness while still choosing to turn back to God.
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Albert Barnes
On Jonah 2:4
18th Century
Theologian
I am cast out of Your sight – literally, “from before Your eyes.” Jonah had willfully withdrawn from standing in God’s pre…
Charles Ellicott
On Jonah 2:4
19th Century
Bishop
I am cast out of your sight. —“Jonah had wilfully withdrawn from standing in God's presence. Now God had taken him at his…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jonah 2:4
19th Century
Preacher
What grand faith Job displayed when he said, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;" and here is another splendid manifestation of f…
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John Calvin
On Jonah 2:4
16th Century
Theologian
In the first clause of this verse, Jonah confirms again what I have said: that when he sought to pray, not only was the door closed against him, bu…
John Gill
On Jonah 2:4
17th Century
Pastor
Then I said, I am cast out of your sight
Or, "from before your eyes" F4 ; the Targum, from before your Wo…
Matthew Henry
On Jonah 2:1–9
17th Century
Minister
Observe when Jonah prayed. He prayed when he was in trouble, under the signs of God's displeasure against him for sin. When we are in affliction, w…