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."

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.

And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not

"Indeed, this is the benefit of God's way: from the soil other plants will sprout.

Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,

Water wears away the stones,
Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,
So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

“They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness,
And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud.”

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, - For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

Then was kindled the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram, - against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;

Then, uncovereth he the ear of men, and, on their correction, affixeth a seal;

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

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,
That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

With leaping and rage he will swallow the earth; and he will not believe that it is the voice of the trumpet

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His soul will kindle coals, and a flame will go forth from his mouth.