11The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"


In Context

8 So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"

9 He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."

10 This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the Lord , because he had already told them so.)

11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"

12 "Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you."

13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.

Jonah 1:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:11And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:11And they said to him: What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:11Then said they to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:11Then they said to him, |What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?| For the sea grew more and more stormy.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:11And they say unto him, 'What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:11Then said they to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea worked, and was tempestuous.