While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.

Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

"My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?

"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

He cuts out channels in the rocks,
and his eyes spot every treasure.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

Now men cannot even look at the sun
when it is in the skies,
after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

Look on every one who is high, and humble him, yea tread down the lawless, on the spot: