Yunus 1:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berkatalah mereka kepadanya: "Beritahukan kepada kami, karena siapa kita ditimpa oleh malapetaka ini. Apa pekerjaanmu dan dari mana engkau datang, apa negerimu dan dari bangsa manakah engkau?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berkatalah mereka kepadanya: "Beritahukan kepada kami, karena siapa kita ditimpa oleh malapetaka ini. Apa pekerjaanmu dan dari mana engkau datang, apa negerimu dan dari bangsa manakah engkau?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata mereka itu kepadanya: Nyatakanlah kiranya kepada kami karena sebab siapa gerangan bala ini berlaku atas kami? Apakah pekerjaanmu? engkau dari mana? apakah negerimu dan dari pada bangsa mana engkau ini?

Contextual Overview

⁴ But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the shippe was in daunger of splitting in sunder. ⁵ Then the maryners were afrayde, and cryed euery man vnto his God, and cast the wares that were in the shippe into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Ionas was gone downe into the sides of the shippe, & he laye downe sleeping. ⁶ And the shippe maister came to him, and saide: What meanest thou sleeper? Up, and call vpon thy God, if so be that God wyl shine vnto vs, that we perishe not. ⁷ And they saide euery one to his felow, Come, let vs cast lottes: that we may know for whose cause this euil is on vs. And they cast lottes: and the lotte fel on Ionas. ⁸ Then saide they vnto him: Tell vs for whose cause is this euill come vpon vs? what is thyne occupation? whence camest thou? what countrey man art thou, and of what nation? ⁹ And he aunswered them: I am an Hebrue, and I feare the Lorde God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the drye lande. ¹⁰ Then were the men exceedingly afraide, & saide vnto him: Why hast thou done this? (for the men knewe that he fled from the presence of the Lorde, because he had tolde them.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tell: Joshua 7:19, 1 Samuel 14:43, James 5:16

What is thine: Genesis 47:3, 1 Samuel 30:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:33 - What is

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they said unto him, tell us, we pray thee,.... They did not fall upon him at once in an outrageous manner, and throw him overboard; as it might be thought such men would have done, considering what they had suffered and lost by means of him; but they use him with great respect, tenderness, and lenity: and entreat him to tell them

for whose cause this evil [was] upon them: or rather, as the Targum,

"for what this evil is upon us;''

and so Noldius f renders the words; for their inquiry was not about the person for whose cause it was; that was determined by the lot; but on what account it was; what sin it was he had been guilty of, which was the cause of it; for they supposed some great sin must be committed, that had brought down the vengeance of God in such a manner:

what [is] thine occupation? trade or business? this question they put, to know whether he had any, or was an idle man; or rather, whether it was an honest and lawful employment; whether it was by fraud or violence, by thieving and stealing, he got his livelihood; or by conjuring, and using the magic art: or else the inquiry was about his present business, what he was going about; what he was to do at Tarshish when he came there; whether he was not upon some ill design, and sent on an unlawful errand, and going to do some ill thing, for which vengeance pursued him, and stopped him:

and whence comest thou? what [is] thy country? and of what people [art] thou? which questions seem to relate to the same thing, what nation he was of; and put by different persons, who were eager to learn what countryman he was, that they might know who was the God he worshipped, and guess at the crime he had been guilty of.

f Concordant. Part. Ebr. p. 182. No. 828.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tell us, for whose cause - Literally “for what to whom.” It may be that they thought that Jonah had been guilty toward some other. The lot had pointed him out. The mariners, still fearing to do wrong, ask him thronged questions, to know why the anger of God followed him; “what” hast thou done “to whom?” “what thine occupation?” i. e., either his ordinary occupation, whether it was displeasing to God? or this particular business in which he was engaged, and for which he had come on board. Questions so thronged have been admired in human poetry, Jerome says. For it is true to nature. They think that some one of them will draw forth the answer which they wish. It may be that they thought that his country, or people, or parents, were under the displeasure of God. But perhaps, more naturally, they wished to “know all about him,” as people say. These questions must have gone home to Jonah’s conscience. “What is thy business?” The office of prophet which he had left. “Whence comest thou?” From standing before God, as His minister. “What thy country? of what people art thou?” The people of God, whom he had quitted for pagan; not to win them to God, as He commanded; but, not knowing what they did, to abet him in his flight.

What is thine occupation? - They should ask themselves, who have Jonah’s office to speak in the name of God, and preach repentance . “What should be thy business, who hast consecrated thyself wholly to God, whom God has loaded with daily benefits? who approachest to Him as to a Friend? “What is thy business?” To live for God, to despise the things of earth, to behold the things of heaven,” to lead others heavenward.

Jonah answers simply the central point to which all these questions tended:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Tell us - for whose cause — A very gentle method of bringing the charge home to himself, and the several questions here asked gave the utmost latitude to make the best of his own case.