¹³ Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.^{(A) 14} Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man,^(B) for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.”^{(C) 15} Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.^(D)