Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
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 ).