and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.

If a man lays at him with the sword it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.