Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 1:4

4 ¶ But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea , and there was a mighty tempest in the sea , so that the ship was like to be broken .

The Almighty and Eternal God from whose work Ionah flieth.

God keepeth the winds as in Store-houses, or treasuries, and now brings one forth to fetch back a Fugitive, and obstinate refuser of his Command,

the greatness of it, with the suddenness of its rising, and manner of its working, undeniably shew'd that 'twas supernatural▪ and from God displeased with all, or with some one or other of them.

The winds did not blow aloft over the sea and ship, but as if they had intermixt with the very waters of the Sea, and like an unheard of Hurricane shaked the very keel of the ship;

That part of the Sea where Ionah's ship was, this Messenger soon finds out Ionah, and speaks in most dreadful manner to all in the ship, who all saw and owned it to be from Heaven, the finger of God.

The Master, and Mariners thought they, Ship, and Goods, and all should be lost; the Hebr. expresseth it as if the Ship had sense of God's anger, as if the ship could think, and did think of its own weakness, and God's mighty hand.

Marginal references: Heb. cast forth.; Heb. thought to be broken.