Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and he went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD ( Jonah 1:3 ).