The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"There are subtleties in this question that I find interesting. The first is that God asked it at all. He knew perfectly well what Jonah was angry about. So He wasn't asking to gather information; He was asking to make Jonah think.
Second, what He wanted Jonah to think about was in one small word. He didn't ask if Jonah had a reason for his anger, because he obviously did. Instead, He asked if that reason was good. We all too often get mad for very silly reasons, or spiteful ones, or otherwise reasons that are not right and good. There is a place for anger, but being mad because a large group of people weren't killed is very rarely among them.
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