13Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
13Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
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.
14 Then they cried to the Lord , "O Lord , please do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O Lord , have done as you pleased."
15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
1:13And the men rowed hard to return to land, but they were not able: because the sea tossed and swelled upon them.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
1:13But the men rowed hard to regain the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
1:13And the men row to turn back unto the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more tempestuous against them.
1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea worked, and was tempestuous against them.