While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Whom I myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My heart faints within me!

While another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting anything good.

Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.

May my wife grind for another,
And let others kneel down over her.

“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.

“They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.