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"Once the storm hits, Jonah is out of control. He had been quite deftly in control before the storm. He had decided on his Tarshish destination. He had paid a considerable sum of money required to get him to Tarshish. The cost of a long voyage as far as the Straits of Gibraltar and beyond, and lasting almost a year, will have been no small matter. Jonah is presented to us as a man with money, able to finance his self-will, his self-determination...He was taking charge of this operation completely, he was in charge, and let there be no mistake about it! But his assertive move to take charge of his vocational destiny and his considerable financial wherewithal to bring it about are, now, insignificant. God storm and God's salvation (or not-salvation) now dominate the scene. Jonah's will in Jonah's money are now trifling."

— Eugene H. Peterson,
Under the Unpredictable Plant