“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 description of the men rowing hard to bring the ship to land but being unable to because the sea was raging more and more indicates human effort to avoid the sacrifice of Jonah. The escalation of the storm despite human effort emphasizes the inexorability of divine judgment.
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