“Nevertheless 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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jonah 1 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.