The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
"The weeds were wrapped about my head ..." Some of the critics have really hooted at this, screaming that "weeds do not grow in a great fish's belly!"[27]  Indeed, indeed!  Neither did Jonah "grow in the belly of the big fish," but there he was; and, of course, both Jonah and the sea weed got there in the same swallow.  It is nothing short of amazing how commentators are intimidated by blatant assertion, risking all kinds of bizarre guesses as their answer to this phantom objection.  Livingston supposed that, "Jonah had become entangled with other material within the fish";[28]  and thought that maybe Jonah mistook "the whale's viscera!"[29] and merely thought it was seaweed!  Blair stated the truth: