and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.
But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.
The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.