Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Mga Awit 139:7

The second question: Why did Yonah seek to flee from beore Gd like it says in the midrash, "Did he think he could from from before Hashem when it says (Psalms 139:7) 'where will I go away from Your spirit and how can I flee' and (Zecharia 4:10) 'the Eyes of Gd range across the whole land." Chazal already gave two answers for Yonah's behavior. The first is that the nations were preapred to repent and he didn't want to implicate Israel. But this is weak reasoning because perhaps Ninveh's teshuva would inspire Israel to repent and Gd would have mercy on their doings even more so since He had mercy on the nations. The second reason is that Yonah suspected that the Ninveh residents would repent and Gd would relent from His decree of destruction and they would say he was a false prophet. And this doesn't make sense to me either, since the people of Ninveh clearly believed Yonah and therefore repented based on his words and it is known that if his words inspired their repentance, that they believed his prophecy and if they didn't believe it they would not have repented. Had they not believed him, they would not have repented and then his prophecy of destruction would have come true, so there is no situation where they would consider him a false prophet. And also why does it matter to Yonah if the people of Ninveh would consider him a false prophet since he didn't live among them and after giving his prophecy could have returned to his land. Why would fear of their opinion of him cause him to flee from before Gd especially since he knows that a prophet that withholds his prophecy is liable to death.

WHENCE YOU COME AND WHITHER YOU ARE GOING. The interrogative governing the place of origin is 'ayin, as in me’ayin ba’u ha’anashim, “whence came the men?” (cf. Joshua 2:4). The interrogative governing the place of arrival is 'anah, as in 'anah elech meruchacha ve’anah mipanecha evrach, “whither shall I go to escape Your spirit, and whither shall I flee from You?” (Psalms 139:7). Both appear in the same verse in the story of the concubine of Giv`ah: 'anah telech ume’ayin tavo, “whither go you, and whence came you?” (Judges 19:17)—Maharal in Derech Chaim.
The word le’an has a kamatz under the alef.

Does Yonah actually think he can flee God? Ask Ibn Ezra to Yonah 1:1 and Radak to Yonah 1:3. Is Yonah not familiar with Yeshayahu HaNavi’s teaching “Melo Kol HaAretz Kevodo,” “Hashem’s glory encompasses the entire world” (Yeshayahu 6:3)? Did not David HaMelech state “VeAnah MiPanecha Evrach,” “and where could I go to escape from You?” (Tehillim 139:7)?