And his sons went and made banquets - one day in one house, another day in another - and sent for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God is fallen from heaven, it hath consumed, and burnt up all thy sheep and servants: and I only ran my way, to tell thee."

In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee."

While he was speaking, there came yet another, and said, "Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant.

Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,

Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.

then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.

O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her.

One is so joined to another, that no air can come in:

Yea, one hangeth so upon another, and sticketh so together, that they cannot be sundered.

The members of his body are joined so strait one to another, and cleave so fast together, that he cannot be moved.