putting him to death, they may also incur God’s wrath. The sailors who have previously made four attempts to survive the storm—prayer (1:3), throwing cargo overboard (1:5), calling on Jonah to appeal to his God (1:6), and casting lots (1:8)—now suspect that God wants Jonah off the ship and so attempt to row to shore. Though they did their best (literally they “rowed hard” or “dug in”), the storm increased (the same Hebrew phrase as verse 11, see opening lines of the NIV in 1:11). Verse 14 reveals