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."

"Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.