While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants {by the edge of the sword}, but I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

At the time this one was speaking, {another} came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.

let my wife grind for another, and let other [men] kneel over her,

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.