Jonah 1:9
“It was not likely that such a prophet should be ignorant of the design of God, which was to bring about, by means of threat, the escape of the Ninevites from the threatened doom, according to his great wisdom and unsearchable judgments and according to his ways which are beyond our tracing and finding out.… To imagine…”
Source: Septuagint
9And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry land.
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7And each man said to his neighbor, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8And they said to him, Tell us what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?
— Jonah 1:9 —
10Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that thou hast done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.
11And they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea rose, and lifted its wave exceedingly.