So they said to him, “What should we do to you to calm this sea that’s against us?” For the sea was getting worse and worse.

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

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, {to your holy temple}.

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

And Yahweh said, "{Is it right for you to be angry}?"

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

So God said to Jonah, "{Is it right for you to be angry} about the plant?" And he said, "{It is right for me to be angry enough to die}!"

And was not, I, to spare Nineveh, the great city, - wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand human beings, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, besides much cattle?