If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
The wicked flee when no one pursues them, But the righteous are as bold as a lion.
But Jonah ran away to Tarshish to escape from the presence of the Lord [and his duty as His prophet]. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish [the most remote of the Phoenician trading cities]. So he paid the fare and went down into the ship to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the [divine] wrath and judgment to come?
The man runs because he is a hired hand [who serves only for wages] and is not concerned about the [safety of the] sheep.
So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.