... All of this may seem obvious, except that some of the versions apparently treated the passage differently. To begin with, there seems to have been a concerted effort not to have Jonah rising from “the Pit,” possibly because the prophet should not presume the certainty of his rescue when God had not yet ordered the fish to vomit him. Therefore, the noun sahat is derived from the verb sahat, “to go to ruin,” allowing renderings connected with “corruption, perdition.” The Vulgate regards the verbal form as an imperfect with a simple conjunction waw. Thus the Vulgate has “And you will make my life rise up from corruption,” et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam. Greek versions, however, treated the verb as a precative and equated hayyay with a word that is feminine singular; see Hill 1967: 163–75. Thus we have the Septuagint’s Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, “yet may my corrupt life be restored,” kai anabeto phthora zoes mou ...