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What meanest thou?—or rather, “what is wrong with you?” (literally, “what is to you?”). The shipmaster speaks of it (as it was) as …

The shipmaster ...— Literally, the chief of those who work at the rope. Jewish nautical terms are infrequent and…

It is hard when sinners have to rebuke saints, and when an uncircumcised Gentile can address a prophet of God in language like this.

Jonah relates here how he was reproved by the pilot or master of the ship, since he alone slept while all the rest were in anxiety and fear. “W…

So the shipmaster came to him
The master of the ve el, who had the command of it; or the governor of it, as Jarchi; …

God sent a pursuer after Jonah, namely, a mighty tempest. Sin brings storms and tempests into the soul, into the family, into churches, and nations…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes