And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the the freight overboard;

And we being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,

And as we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding day they were making a clearing,

But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;

And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship;

Then, since we were being tossed about strongly by the tempest, on the following day, they threw the heavy items overboard.

So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,

They lightened the ship - By throwing out a part of the cargo.

Lightened the ship - Of what, we know not; but it was probably cumbrous wares, by which the deck was thronged, and which were prejudicial to the due trim of the vessel.

(4) And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship;
(4) The result proves that none provide worse for themselves than those who commit themselves to be governed only by their own wisdom.

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest,.... Sometimes being lifted up as it were to the heavens, and then presently sinking down, as if they were going into the bottom of the sea; such a condition at sea is described to the life by the Psalmist, in Psalm 107:25.
the next day they lightened the ship; of its burden, its lading, the goods and merchandise that were in it; as the mariners did in the ship in which Jonah was, Jonah 1:5 the Ethiopic version renders it, "they cast the goods into the sea"; the Arabic version, the "merchandise".

They lightened the ship - Casting the heavy goods into the sea.