While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days.

Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.

Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.

For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.

Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.

(Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)