and on the third day with their own hands they threw even the ship’s tackle overboard.
The satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
Then the sailors were afraid and each one cried to his god. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay there fast asleep.
We were being pounded by the storm so violently that the next day they jettisoned some cargo,
Neither the sun nor the stars were visible for many days, and no small storm raged. Finally, all hope of our surviving was taken away.