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."

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse} God and die."

It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form [was] {before} my eyes; [there was] a hush, and I heard a voice:

But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed, turn, {my righteousness is still intact}.

when Shaddai[was] still with me, my children [were] all around me,

My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me.

"Bear with me a little longer, and {I will explain}, for {I still have something to say on God's behalf}.

"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.

[You] whose garments [are] hot, when [the] earth is being still because of [the] south wind,

With roar and rage {it races over the ground}, and it cannot stand still at [the] sound of [the] horn.