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OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to_him/it tell please to/for_us in/on/at/with_account_of_that of_who the_trouble the_this to/for_us what occupation_your and_from_where do_you_come what country_your and_what from_this people [are]_you.
OET (OET-RV) So they said to him, “Hey, tell us why this disaster is happening to us. What’s your occupation? Where are you from? What country? What nationality are you?”
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו
and=they_said to=him/it
Here, they refers back to the group of sailors referred to as “every man” in verse 7; the pronoun him refers to Jonah. If it would be helpful in your language, you could repeat Jonah's name and the term that you are using for the sailors here. Alternate translation: “Then the men who were working on the ship said to Jonah”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
הַגִּידָה־נָּ֣א לָ֔נוּ בַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר לְמִי־הָרָעָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לָ֑נוּ
tell, please to/for=us in/on/at/with,account_of_that of,who the,trouble the,this to/for=us
The sailors are asking Jonah to tell them who is responsible for the storm. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Reveal to us who caused this bad storm to happen to us”
1:7-8 Use of lots was permitted by God for certain purposes (see Lev 16:8; Josh 18:6; 1 Chr 26:12-16; Acts 1:26); however, divination in general, as practiced in the wider ancient world, was displeasing to the Lord (Deut 18:9-13).
• to see which of them had offended the gods: It was fairly common in the ancient Near East to assume that bad fortune was the result of a god’s taking offense.
OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to_him/it tell please to/for_us in/on/at/with_account_of_that of_who the_trouble the_this to/for_us what occupation_your and_from_where do_you_come what country_your and_what from_this people [are]_you.
OET (OET-RV) So they said to him, “Hey, tell us why this disaster is happening to us. What’s your occupation? Where are you from? What country? What nationality are you?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.