'Saying' in the Bible

and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!'

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

They were saying to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.