"But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and

How should God conduct himself; what should he be doing? Only the God of the Bible would humble himself to invite mere humans to consider such questions with him. As in Jonah's case, our sense of rightness and wrongness points to a God bound by his own nature to act mercifully. Therefore, the moral imperative of God is the designation of our duty.