Then the Sabeans {attacked}, and they took them, and they slew the servants {by the edge of the sword}. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

"Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word [spoken] gently with you?

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

'Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me}, but I did not know.