Jonah 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship to the land, but they could not, for the sea became more and more violent against them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Nevertheless 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.

Common English Bible

¹³ The men rowed to reach dry land, but they couldn’t manage it because the sea continued to rage against them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.

Jonah 1:13 Cross References

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Jonah 1:12

He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great storm has come upon you.”

Jonah 1:14

Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, O Lord, we pray, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life. Do not make us guilty of innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”